SOCIAL NETWORKING: CONNECT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. Kathryn McCauley MidYork Library System

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1 1 SOCIAL NETWORKING: CONNECT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY Kathryn McCauley MidYork Library System

2 What is a Social Network? 2 According to Wikipedia: A social networking service is an online service, that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services.

3 What tools are out there? 3 And lots more!

4 Today 4 In this class on personal social networking, we will look at Facebook, Twitter, and using RSS feeds to follow websites and blogs.

5 Facebook 5

6 The Facebook Homepage 6 Notifications, like friend requests, messages, and updates will appear here, in red Adjust account and privacy settings, remove friends, or log out. This is the main navigation This is your wall, with updates from all of your friends and pages you follow. You can view it with most recent posts first, or the most popular.

7 Privacy Settings 7 Every time you post content, you can change your settings for that one post Facebook uses a few broad categories for privacy settings: Public or Everyone Friends Friends of Friends Customize to limit by certain lists or individuals Only Me (or You)

8 Inline Privacy Settings: Status Updates 8 From within a post, you can tag friends or add a location Facebook will often use a pop-up like this to notify you of new privacy settings. Now, you can adjust privacy settings for each individual post. You can limit who can see your post to friends, friends of friends, public, choose a list, or specific names

9 Facebooking from a Smartphone? 9 The navigation bar becomes a menu: This is what your wall will look like on Facebook mobile Your personal profile should looks pretty similar on a computer or on your smartphone

10 Timeline Preview 10 Over the next few weeks, Facebook will be rolling out Timeline to all Facebook members: This will appear at the top of your profile timeline

11 11 Creating a Twitter Account

12 Twitter Lingo 12 Tweet n. a message posted using Twitter with 140 characters or fewer, or v. the act of posting a message, or tweet. #hashtags form a searchable keyword tag for your post, helping users find tweets of interest Since you are limited to 140 characters per tweet, you might need a URL shortener to fit a link into your post. Try: bit.ly, is.gd, or tinyurl.com You might also this calls out to another twitter user, forming a direct link called a retweet, this lets you give credit when you forward a cool tweet to your followers

13 Tweeting from a Smartphone? 13 You might see something like this: This is where you will enter your tweet. When you re finished, click (or tap) Send. These symbols will let out another user Add a #hashtag or searchable keyword Include a picture Include your location Track remaining characters

14 RSS Feeds 14 Instead of looking at lots of websites, and RSS Feed lets you check one place and catch up on everything Just look for the orange RSS symbol!

15 RSS Feeds: Using Google reader 15 Name of Blog, number of articles to be read, and title of recent article RSS Feed are like magazines you design yourself. Choose articles, news sites, website, and blogs you are interested, then read them all from one place.

16 16 This training session was developed for the Public Computing Center (PCC) and Mobile Public Computing Center (mpcc) at Mid York Library System. The PCC and mpcc are funded by two Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grants. These grants are part of $9.5 million that was awarded to the New York State Library, a unit of the Office of Cultural Education within the New York State Education Department (NYSED) by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in order to increase access to computers in public libraries across New York State. Funding for this award is being provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.