Week 2 - Web 2.0, Social Networking and the social life of information - Part 1

I thought that I would be a natural at this subject...after all I live on facebook! But trying to raise two children (and a husband) and trying to keep up with readings for two subjects as well as checking facebook INF506 group page, twitter etc. I am starting to wonder how do people who are professional bloggers do this? How do they keep on top of their social network pages? Write, commentate on social and current events and be able to do anything else? My respect for the likes of Mia Freedman is increasing by the day...how does she do it? I have subscribed to a kizillion blogs - social commentary and gossip, ones recommended by lecturers, library industry ones via RSS - I can barely keep up every morning there is another 100 or so entries..arghhhhhh.

For the next two weeks we are exploring a variety of social networking sites.....at least I have heard of most of them and have attempted to use most of them in some capacity....I can only imagine what it must be like for students who have been forced to immigrate to this 'digital' world. So this week I will play around with sites recommended and will offer my 'non-expert' opinion and reflections on them.