DELICIOUS

This tool could be useful to keep track of developments by individuals or organisations about specific topics, events or tools by using the tags and bookmarks created allowing the user to connect to chosen websites or blogs. This would be an advantage with professional development as it would aid in the notification of trends in technology and may assist when answering customer queries for information.

On investigation of this tool I have found that it contains the ability to track the links established and the tagging used by those people who are included in your list of friends. Also included is the facility to track the information of your friends list in both the Facebook and Twitter provided that you  have authorised a connection from your Delicious account to your accounts on these platforms.

To be honest, this is a tool whose use to me at the moment is very limited. I am not yet savvy enough in the field of social networks and modern technologies to utilise the features to their best advantage. I am very reluctant to venture into the realms of this form of modern communications as I see the social network as invasive of my personal space. I am content to work a lot slower than appears to be the necessity of today's society. If people want me to know something, they will let me know rather than me gathering the information for cyber space and feeling I am spying on them..

There is a section of the population who have embraced this technology with enthusiasm but they have never know any other way of communicating. This technique of sending information into the ether and assuming that others will collect it does not sit well with me.

I guess my age is showing.