One of the things I've fallen into in this new job is exploring the Web 2.0ishness (and of course Library 2.0 stuff) and social networking sites etc. The aim being to see how useful such things might be in our library work rather than just playing with them for the sake of it.

Not that I wasn't uninterested in my old job - but here it seems we're further behind and I'm finding that anything I learn or do means I'm well ahead of the game and becoming the de facto expert if not an actual expert.

But as you sign up for more and more things, create logins/passwords, profiles - even avatars now - it all becomes harder to keep track of. But there's something else that's been niggling at the back of my mind and Sarah Houghton-Jan puts it really well:

http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/05/sarahs_social_n.html


No, she's not the only one.
Worse yet, I feel myself being put off bothering by just such a sense.
I can't even recall when I last logged onto Ning.