Have you heard of the FACEBOOK ? Chances are that if you are a college student, or parent or friend of same, that you have. It’s the in place to post your data and check out other college kids photos, likes, dislikes, friends, etc.
My two sons (Carleton College and Vassar College) are active participants (but of course, I can’t check out their pages unless they let me). Story here on how this relatively new site (February 2004) has mushroomed into a big attraction for the 18-24 demographic.
disturbing?
from the story: “When 21-year-old Sushu Xia from Palo Alto, a senior at the University of Chicago, desperately needed a book, she asked the university’s librarian who had borrowed it, then looked his room number up on Facebook. Minutes later, she was knocking on his dorm room door.”
Re:disturbing?
Um, quite! Don’t most libraries have a policy against disclosing the identity of a patron with a book checked out?
Re:disturbing?
I wonder if the person working at the library was a professional librarian or possibly a student worker instead. Either way, it’s probably a violation of policy, although I’ve certainly heard of it being done before.