Sunday, February 24, 2008

Thing #19: 'Friend' Someone on a Web 2.0 Service

I have a Facebook account and am quite familiar with it and I use it all the time with friends and family, although I'd have to say I have my security settings set quite high so that no one can find me if I don't know them, or at least I hope I do. The interesting thing I just realized is that if you search for "Ryan Deschamps" and there are 5 people with that name and you have no idea what he looks like or know any of his friends.. then how would you know if you added the right person? Interesting dilemma.

Okay.. that wasn't so hard. After speaking with a co-worker, I found out that if I did a search of Halifax Public Libraries on Facebook, there are many members listed in that group and Ryan is one of them.. so I added him as a friend to my Facebook along with two other co-workers. I think there would still be a problem if there hadn't been a HPL Group though.

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