Social Networking

The fun things about having a personal facebook account:

• I’m in the middle of two scrabble games
• I find out about websites that I find really interesting and/or useful
• MindJolt games are fun and very addictive
• It’s easier to keep in touch with people (that have Facebook accounts)
• I find out important info right away, like the fact that my daughter is flying out of the DR in the middle of tropical storm Gustav

The useful things about a Loft Facebook account:

• Last night 2 teens IMed me through Facebook about library programs, one about Wizard Rock, and the other was asking when B.O.O.K. was starting up again
• Getting our program info out there
• I have found that the older teens were initially a bit resentful of institutions putting pages on Facebook, but younger teens accept it as a part of Facebook (because it’s more recent)

MySpace:

• It’s really fun to connect with so many YA authors on MySpace
• It’s really fun to decorate (oh how I wish I could paint my walls at home by typing in a bit of code!!!)
• The spam is very annoying
• I love all the music, and music sites

I have a LinkedIn account. I can’t say how useful it really is to me.

Amazing Mazes

I took this video of some of the truly amazing maze games that teens created in the video game design class we held at the library this summer. Jacob edited it. I uploaded it to YouTube, and then I captured it on vodpod. I put it in one of the widgets on the Virtual Loft. Check it out! (I added it to the sidebar here too).

I love the game in the middle that has spiders, etc., and a big HA! at the end. I was impressed by the multiple levels that the teens created in their games. One of the teens made his sprite leave the screen entirely, and it had to find its way back (that’s when the camera is jiggling and I’m trying to figure out where the sprite is going to reenter the screen). Nothing like thinking out of the box!