Thing 17

As I said in one of my previous posts, I’ve had a Facebook account for some time now and I enjoy it very much. I must say that after reading the article in the Time magazine I was surprised to learn that there are so many other social networks that I didn’t know about. It makes sense that MySpace or Facebook wouldn’t be the only ones, but I never realized the extent of social networks of any kind. The Internet really is amazing, isn’t it?
When I read the article that talked about the online social library a couple of questions came to my mind. They said that people started sending messages to the library from all around the country, but I don’t understand what purpose those patrons had when they did that because in case they wanted to check anything out they would have to go to Tacoma in person, unless they checked out virtual books, which is what I suppose. Another question is how do they do it for patrons to check out movies? Do they let them download them from the Internet and for just a specific period of time? They don’t say anything about it and I want to know. Whenever I have more time I might ask them about that in the Discussion Boards they have.
Still, I find the whole idea of making a virtual library very optimistic; I don’t know if it would work for everybody, and I don’t really see this library doing it, but who knows? Maybe the future will say something different.
Goodreads looks interesting and I will definitely check it out because I’ve been thinking for a while now that it would be a good idea to keep a record of the books that I’ve read and to exchange opinions about them at the same time that I try to find something similar that I might enjoy.