{"id":367,"date":"2013-08-15T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/?p=367"},"modified":"2016-01-28T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:12:46","slug":"reflection-on-my-use-of-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/reflection-on-my-use-of-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"A reflection on my use of social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I shared the news that I had been recommended for reappointment for another 3-year term (yay!) on all three of the social networks that I actively participate in: Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use or think of all three networks the same way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook is my personal network: people I know or have at least met and chatted with a time or two. While I sometime share work-related information on Facebook, most of my activity there is more in the personal arena.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter is more of a professional space for microblogging content related to my work as a librarian as well as my interests in technology, organizations, education, etc, etc.<\/li>\n<li>I have to admit that Google+ is more of a placeholder. I tend to use it to share blog posts that I write (like this one) and other major events\/items. But I spend far less time interacting with people in that space than in the other two.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I should also say that I probably spend the most time on Facebook, a bit less on Twitter, and far less on Google+.<\/p>\n<p>Given this, the results of my posting my reappointment news are not surprising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google+: 177 people have me in circles &#8211;&gt; 1 comment<\/li>\n<li>Twitter: 536 followers &#8211;&gt; 1 comment<\/li>\n<li>Facebook: 550 friends &#8211;&gt; 64 likes, 8 comments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not surprising, but still something for me to think about. At the very least, I think this not only reflects but reinforces how I have chosen to use these various networks. The people I connect with on Facebook are of course more likely to react to personal news like this. I&#8217;ve also invested more in terms of interacting with people on Facebook, so it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that my social connections in that space are stronger. It isn&#8217;t that I couldn&#8217;t have those same social connections in Twitter or Google+. I just haven&#8217;t chosen to use those spaces in that way. And I&#8217;m ok with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I shared the news that I had been recommended for reappointment for another 3-year term (yay!) on all three of the social networks that I actively participate in: Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. I don&#8217;t use or think of all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/reflection-on-my-use-of-social-networks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[90,88,53,91],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/edbilodeau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}