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Balancing safety and sociability.(Book review)
Byline: Kim Thomas
Balancing safety and sociability
' book review
Social networking finally hit the mainstream in 2007, as millions of people signed up to MySpace, Facebook and Bebo. Such networks require users to put a great deal of private information in the public domain. What are the risks in doing this? And can libraries adopt social networking for the benefit of their users?
The first part of this book, published by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), reports on an international survey into internet use and the attitudes of both public and professional librarians to sharing personal information online. The second part reports on focus group research that explores these issues in greater depth.
The book is a surprisingly good read. It is well written, clearly and attractively laid out, and the survey results are easy to pick out. The results illustrate how quickly and completely the internet has changed our lives: 89% of respondents have been using the internet for at
least four years; 34% of UK respondents have used a social media site; 71% of French respondents have used instant messaging.
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