Presented by the challenge of joining by Diocesan Web 2.0 “guru” Judy O’Connell, I decided to find out what Facebook was all about.

My initial thoughts (before signing up) was that it was another in the MySpace, Bebo, etc. line of sites; which it is.  It’s definitely a social networking site.  Not that I appear to be very social at present.  My public profile invites people to view my 0 photos, 0 wall posts, 0 notes and 0 groups.

But I do have friends (now doesn’t that sound sad)!  Besides Judy, upon registering I discovered that a friend of mine from my uni days (my BEd days, 1998-2001) was also on Facebook.  I kept on looking, and found another friend from past days.  Not surprising she would be here (or on some other social networking site) given that we used to keep in touch via MSN Messenger and she documented her overseas trip using this tool called Blogger which I thought looked good, but I hadn’t thought of an educational use for :-).  Thank goodness that’s now changed.  Further searching now suggests that compared to some of my friends, I’m a little bit behind the times.

I suppose I’ll keep playing and looking around; seeing what Facebook can do.  It seems to be a bit more ordered and “clean” than say MySpace or Bebo, so I’m wondering if, like those sites, it has/will have a “demographic” that prefers it over other social networking sites?

As far as Web 2.0 tools go, I don’t think I’m doing too badly.  I’m doing the whole blogging thing (on several platforms for a variety of audience and purposes), engaging in social networking and bookmarking, made a small start on Flickr, set up a wiki for a work Professional Development program and podcasted for the same.  Add SlideShare presentations, and a whole lot of extra things I’ve probably forgotten, and I’m pretty busy.  Not bad for a someone who’s still technically a digital immigrant!