Twitter

I have to admit, I have been avoiding the whole Twitter phenomenon. It sounded annoying to me to have to hear about people's everyday activities like going to the restroom or making a sandwich. I really just don't care about these sorts of things which is one of the reasons I dislike reality television. Additionally, I have a Facebook account, and I find the status update to be sufficient for finding out what my friends are doing and to let them know what I am doing. But for the purposes of this exercise, I decided to give tweets a chance.

I signed up for the account, and picked someone to follow. I quickly "unfollowed" him because he tweets often and as I said before, I don't care to hear everything that someone is doing. I can see, however, that Twitter could be useful for libraries, even if it is not one's personal preference for communicating. It is a quick and easy way to get updates out to a lot of people (because it seems almost everyone is on Twitter these days). It could also be used for brief movie and book reviews. Librarians could use it to find out what their customers are tweeting about, thus, assisting them in collection development, program planning, and more.