Although I’ve never been a huge Facebook user – just for demonstration purposes has been my usual line – there has been a definite decline in my use of it over the last couple of months. I think this is primarily because my ‘friends’ use of it has also taken a downturn and there isn’t much point to social networking on your tod. There are only so many times I can try to top my Traveller’s IQ! Plus I’ve never really used it for work-related communication, preferring to keep the two separate to a certain extent.
Anyway that’s a long introduction to the point of this post, which is to highlight some excellent posts over on Ed Techie: Facebook the holiday romance and Facebook Lessons. Martin also adds his thoughts on the the current social networking in HE debate over at the economist.
And my favourite quote:
The modern day educational technologist needs to think of themselves as something of a Henry VIII figure – always falling in love then cruelly discarding the object of affection for the next one. But with less beheading.
I’m not finding that myself – I’m on it as much as ever. I particularly like the way the feeds keep you up to date with what others are doing, particularly when those others might be people you haven’t seen for ages.
But it can’t last forever, so the predictions of a drop-off in its use are probably correct. I doubt it’ll happen this year though.