Comments on: What Can Your Facebook Status Do For You? http://librarygarden.net/2008/04/02/what-can-your-facebook-status-do-for-you-2/ An ongoing conversation among librarians with differing perspectives (public, academic, school, consortial, youth) but one shared goal: ensuring the health and relevance of libraries. [insert your own gardening metaphor here] Fri, 17 May 2013 18:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robert J. Lackie http://librarygarden.net/2008/04/02/what-can-your-facebook-status-do-for-you-2/#comment-4222 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:09:00 +0000 http://librarygarden.net/2008/04/02/what-can-your-facebook-status-do-for-you-2/#comment-4222 Yes, Amy, it is just as you noted, and sorry for scaring you in the library parking garage! Great post, and it really was a pleasant surprise seeing you in Princeton, along with your colleagues for the day, especially when neither of us is from there. Your “digital self” post helped trigger my thoughts on the related topic of ID theft, so I am going to blog about that later today–thanks!

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I noticed that one of my twitter contacts was cleaning closets and had several new knapsacks to give away. I sent a tweet telling her that I would pay for shipping if she wanted to donate them to the shelter. Turns out she was going to be traveling near Princeton later that day and she dropped them off that afternoon! We had a coffee and a chat –and that was how I finally got to meet Julie Strange f2f after having been virtual colleagues via blogging and twitter.

I too love it when my virtual life and real life overlap in such ways.

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