Thursday, 3 May 2012

Trolling & Cyberbullying

These seem to constitute a bit of a blood sport for those who indulge - with sometimes tragic consequences as here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569949/Girl-13-commits-suicide-after-online-bullying.html

Trolling seems like a weird activity - these folk should get out more! 

LinkedIn thing 14

Registered for LinkedIn.

Pinterest

Another opportunity for organising and sharing things of interest.  Life's too short as far as I'm concerned!  I'm getting on great with Delicious now, so any other similar things aren't of much pinterest...oops, sorry!

Libraries on Facebook

I think there's a conflict for students with being contacted through what they see as a social space by libraries, uni, school or whatever.  I'm sure some find it helpful but others will experience it as intrusive I think.

Thing 13

Have had a FB account for a long time now but not an avid user.  Google + confuses me but I think it's just that the layout is unfamiliar.  FB is forever tinkering with the format and design which is frustrating - I don't want to spend my life working out the impact of the changes to privacy settings and where to look for things I used to be able to see...will investigate further

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Thing 12

Checked out the UWE YouTube channel & left a comment on the Graduation video box thingy.

Thing 11 - audio podcasts

Have used podcasts for when on holiday in places with rubbish radio reception - great for catching up on missed programs via the i-pod