I have had limited experiences with Facebook and can certainly see the ways that vast amounts of people can get connected without ever physically meeting each other.
I think that this offers a wonderful opportunity for librarians to get kids excited about reading books. If you were to create a library facebook account and get linked up with students, you could really get the excitement going. You could do book reviews and send those out to your library facebook "Friends." If each one of your "friends" were to do a review or booktalk there would be so many great reviews available! Imagine the conversations at lunch . . ."Did you hear about _________. Kelsey said it was the best book ever!"
There could also be issues limiting the use of this resource: school district blocking the site, no control over comments made by individuals and posted. I expect we will see some ways to control such comments in the near future.
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