Facebook

Sorry, but I've heard some disconcerting opinions about FB and I'm not sure that I want to go there. I think it is probably a great tool for some folks and obviously the library always wants to stay up to the minute with what the community is doing and FB is a way for us to continue to spread the news about how great we are, but on a personal level it something that I may not participate in.

Virtual Worlds

I am not a SL citizen and although this is all new to me I think that these virtual worlds are pretty amazing and I can see them becoming more popular. I don't necessarily believe that we are competing with virtual reality worlds today, but we might see that happen in the future.

From the "Dark Side"...

All I have to say is that I just recently saw a report of a person who only conducts her business transactions on line and has been extremely careful, and she got her identity stolen off of the Internet. So if even the most experienced folks out there can get scammed...I don't take any extra chances. I'm sorry, but I don't put any of my personal info out there and I don't do online payments or banking. Call me old fashioned, or foolish, or just plain paranoid, but I've had my identity stolen once before with snail mail and I don't want to go through that again!! Phishing and Malware are just frightening!

Life Long Learning

I just can't keep up with all that is out there!!! Whew, there were so many great links in this last assignment I wanted to spend more time exploring. The Berklee Music Lessons were very cool, I loved the fact that a amateur blues guitarist could basically get free lessons from a professional musician of a prestigious music school. How cool is that?! Like I said, I definitely could've played around in this assignment more. The positivity blog I would visit again and I think that Instructables is just evil. That is just plain addictive for the do-it-yourselfer. Very, very cool. I will be checking that out like crazy. eHow was great too. The online graduate classes are something I was already familiar with and the eCollege Guide is a handy tool. I have some further investigating to do on my own part after 2.1 has ended. There are just so many tools out there to find info, it's mind blowing. I really enjoyed this assignment and I will be returning to many of these web sites.