There was an interesting editorial today on the teen who committed suicide after her MySpace friendship blew up. It suggested the real problem was adults who immersed themselves too far into the teen milieu. A remark attributed to Yogi Berra, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded," may soon apply to adult (including librarian) exploitation of MySpace. There is a subtle difference between being available where your clientele hangs out and being intrusive.
I see value in having our teen groups on MySpace - that makes sense in the context. And I support a VBPL MySpace account that focuses tightly on services of interest like IM, rather than replicating the whole range of our Virtual Library. However, I think we need to be prepared to follow the teen demographic when they leave MySpace which I'm guessing they will have done by 2010 if not earlier. If we take another three years to prepare to have a presence on the latest Internet fad, we might as well not bother. OK?
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