Social Networking and Safety

Safe Social Networking Tools

NSTeens—Post-to-be Private

Social Networking Basics
StaySafe.org for Teenagers

Connect Safely—Smart Socializing Starts Here

StaySafe.org for Teenagers

GetNetWise—Social Networking Sites
For answers to specific questions about networking online, be sure to visit “NetSmartz411”

Pick Up a Magazine and Start Reading

It is the last of February, but it feels like spring!  On balmy days like today I only want to read articles - there are too many other things happening around me.  Are the crocus bulbs coming up or did the squirrels eat them?  What new birds is my cat watching at the bird feeders?  Can our dog traverse her pen or is it covered with prickly seedpods from the Sweetgum tree? 

Although I am in the middle of a fabulously wrenching book loaned to me by Darlington fourth-grade teacher Rebekah Kinney ("The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold), I find myself at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and a magazine.  Is this considered REAL reading?  Of course! 

Many magazine/newspaper readers don’t consider themselves to be readers - they tend to think reading is synonymous with thick books.  But magazines and newspapers are not only real reading; I love the way different articles allows me time to stop and integrate what I am reading into what I already know and do.  With many books, I only stop to really think about them after I have finished reading them- which is what makes re-reading them so much fun. 

So all you magazine/newspaper/e-readers, take pride in your reading!   You are as real as the rest of us.

Ann Glass, Librarian