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Editor’s Note: This column, “LBWA” (Leadership By Wandering Around), is based on the premise that, in order to find out what’s going on in the field, a parks and rec leader has to leave his or her desk and “wander around” the area of operations, talk to people, ask questions, and kick around ideas with the individuals in the thick of delivering services to the public. So the author will bring up issues and ask the leaders among the readership to share their knowledge and experiences.
Here I go again sounding like a myopic dinosaur who is technophobic at best or just purely old-fashioned, but is it just me or are some of these “social networking” Web sites a little scary?
I’m talking about Twitter and Facebook and MySpace and MyLife and blah, blah, blah … these Web sites where generally anybody can post the intimate details of his or her life, with photos, to be exploited in whatever way imaginable by anyone on the cyberspace superhighway who has the knowledge and inclination to do so.
E-mail As Prehistoric As Dinosaurs
This issue came to the surface for me recently when my staff and I started talking about using these sites as a means of promoting our recreation and other city programs. We’ve been using e-mail distribution lists effectively, but as our youth-programs coordinator told me, “Most teenagers and young adults consider e-mail outdated.”