CLP 2.0 Do you see any practical applications for LibraryThing either at home or at work? Will you start using this site?

I had a look at this site after taking the tour and found it too busy with way too much going on at one time on the screen. I doubt I will ever look at it again as Facebook has a Visual bookshelf if I really wanted to keep track of everything I read. These things just seem to be more and more of the same things with their own twist but ultimately just filling up the cyberspace.
If I were looking for a book and a review on a book....I'd use amazon or google it and go to the author's site or some other link. Our own elibrary has more useful info...ie NoveList.

CPL 2.0 • Why do you think social networking sites are so popular? What are the main appeal factors?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
To answer the Question about social networking sites in one word ......Narcissism.


The above link will give you a full explanation of this trait that is effecting people of all ages and all walks of life. Blogging also serves this phenomena.

It's a world of "look at me, look at my pictures, look at how many friends I have, look at the games I am playing, look at what I am doing, look at what I am doing now, this is what I think"....yadayadayada.

Get this...

I've travelled the world twice over,

Met the famous:  saints and sinners,

Poets and artists, kings and queens,

Old stars and hopeful beginners,

I've been where no-one's been before,

Learned secrets from writes and cooks

All with one library ticket

To the wonderful world of books.

©Janice James

What are you reading?

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly........................................  This is an amazing story of a boy who hears books whisper and travels to another land with similarities to many familiar fairy tales.

What do you hope to learn from CPL 2.0?

This promises to be a fun training module...I'm already having fun with it. I hope to become more accomplished with the applications we will be following during this time and I hope to learn something new along the way too. Maybe I will.
It would be nice to see a posting of all the blogs, twitters and wiki creations and such of my fellow co-workers so that we could perhaps learn from what others are learning as well as all the discoveries that we will be making on our own adventures through these techno-travels.

And winning an I-pod would be a lovely bonus.....