I was surprised by how many Oxford libraries have Facebook pages. I have used Facebook for quite a long time (I remember when you had to be a member of a uni and prove it to join), but have only ever used it for messaging friends, stalking acquaintances and procrastinating during exam revision. I have been a member of groups normally for invites to friends' parties or because someone has lost their phone and wants to send a group message out to their friends so they can recuperate their numbers.
I was impressed by the effort the libraries have put in to adapting their pages for library purposes. A page is definitely much more useful than a group because it can be open to people who are not facebook members and accessed anonymously. Nonetheless, I think it would be better for a library to have its own 'proper' site or page because I would never think to search for work or study things on Facebook and I wouldn't trust it in the same way I would trust an official site to provide reliable information.
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