Method 8

I've been a Facebook and Twitter user for a while.
I started using Twitter when I stayed for Hurricane Ike. I used my cellphone to tweet my experiences when my window exploded in the middle of the storm and what we did to cover it up while hurricane force winds blew through my bedroom, or when the power went out right in the middle of that, or when we sat in the sweltering living room listening to the transformers exploding all over town and the roof make strange noises as if it was going to peel off the top of the building at any moment, or when it was so scary and all I had was a candle and a battery powered radio, listening to this lone voice in the night describing people in Crystal Beach standing on their roofs as the flood waters rose.

I try very hard to keep both my personal Twitter and Facebook accounts separate from my work at the Library. Sometimes I'd like to rant and I feel that's not appropriate when I'm representing the library.

I have set up a FaceBook fan page for the Library and a Facebook profile for Stacks, our library cat.
Social networking is huge and libraries can definitely benefit from it if they had someone who could devote a lot of time to keeping it updated. I am having a tough time keeping up with updating blogs and Facebook by myself.
I've thought about adding a Twitter account for the library but if I can't keep up with Facebook and our blog and all the other responsibilities I have, I know Twitter will be neglected.
Libraries who have enough staff can definitely benefit and succeed with social networking.