Week 9: Social Networking

Library blogs are a Nice way to get to know your community and for them to get to know the library. Everything from reviews of events to just fun interesting articles that are relevant to current or upcoming library activities can be posted and improve the library's image.



I have had some personal experience with social networking site. Mostly I don't participate in them because I'm just not that social of a person but I have from time to time dabbled in them and I have a few accounts spread out across a few sites. Mostly I'll have one to keep in touch with one or two old friends.

Now the main thing I have used social networking sites for is to wind up other people. Usually members of groups, clubs or fandoms. Some examples of this is setting up a parody online journal of a person and then copying everything down to the last possible detail but making it slightly off. One thing to do is take their journal entries and translate them into various languages in babel fish then back into English. What you get back often seems like the rantings of a crazy person.


EX: "What you get back often seems like the rantings of a crazy person" becomes "That you often turn, you appear as the d' rantings; a moved person" (this was English to Spanish, Spanish to French, French to German, German to English)


Then at the right time you try to befriend the person you are mocking. Often fireworks and banning of the fake account ensue, but sometimes they never notice and assume English is not your first language.


Another fun thing to do is infiltrate a fandom's public website like say a group on live journal. Build up your character, make friends, be consistent. Find a few pictures to represent your character. Wait until there is some major get together, convention. Collect as much information and images about past events as you can. Make a series of say 20 or 30 horrible altered pictures inserting your chosen character into the image. Leave huge chunks of the original image, insist they are 100% authentic. Respond to discussions about things at the convention as if you were there. Insist you are long time friends with people. When people get mad an argue, and they will.
Do not be vulgar, do not argue, keep it simple flat denial is far more frustrating than an elaborate argument.
When they say you altered the images say "no I didn't", when they say they are not real say "yes they are", when they go out and hunt up the original pictures you used accuse them of altering your images.
If you have friends who do not share the same internet connection you do have them set up false accounts before hand like you did and have then respond in your defense.
If done well this can go on for weeks.