This message sort of conforms what I had thought about Facebook.
The comment that "I am and use it to keep in touch with friends across the
UK and abroad - not work related at all and I use my home email... It's esp
good for sharing and commenting on photos." hints that Facebook is best kept
to your nearest and dearest.
I reappear here only because the same issue cropped up on the ABSW mailing
list. There the idea came up that it would be more sensible to go for a
professional social network. Peter Green, of AlphaGalileo fame, pointed us
at the Nature network.
Whatever you think of Nature as a commercial venture, it sure ain't
Microsoft or the Dirty Digger.
Start here:
http://network.nature.com/
but be warned that several people have found the navigation to be clunky. It
also appears to be Firefox hostile, which is dumb. It is, though, firmly
scientific and unlikely to suffer from the ad avalanche that Facebook and
MySpace seem to be dead set on unleashing.
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Michael Kenward
ABSW e-minder
http://www.absw.org.uk
http://absw.blogspot.com/
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Sent: 12 November 2007 14:36
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Subject: [PSCI-COM] Facebook - National Science week
Hi
Regarding facebook - I suspect plenty of people on this list are members...
I am and use it to keep in touch with friends across the UK and abroad - not
work related at all and I use my home email... It's esp good for sharing and
commenting on photos. I suspect people would be reluctant to mix work and
home life though. That said I hope the National science week group goes
well.. I don't have anything do with Science week in my current role.
Re Facebook generally - If anyone is considering joining facebook and
worried about privacy you just change the settings to 'only my friends' see
and either have a non-recognisable photo or something representing you (one
of my pals has dolphins as her picture)...and don't join a regional network.
And if someone wants to be your friend that you don't know - just ignore
it... I'm lucky as I have such a common name I am pretty hard to find.
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Rebecca Jones
Co-ordinator Institute of Health Sciences
www.manchester.ac.uk/ihs
Tel: 0161 275 7657
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