Keeping with the times...

I found this article, It's official teens are bored with Facebook,  and thought I would post it here. How quickly trends change. As teacher librarians we are asked to use digital technologies and social media to reach out to the student audience. But just like myspace, and msn lost (or are losing) their luster so too it seems is facebook. While this article is not conclusive it does support what I have seen happening in schools and in my friendship groups, people deleting or not using Facebook accounts. I admit, I myself lost interest once my mother started posting, tagging embarrassing old family photos or trying to use texting slang (which is probably also the time when I stopped using abbreviations in my texts). So as teacher librarians of the digital age we need to be experts in the new social learning technologies but also understand when the technology is outdated and irrelevant to peoples life. It is not the end for Facebook, just yet, but who knows how long that will be or what will replace it.