Tuesday, August 19, 2008

LibraryThing and Real Life


Today's question courtesy of The Boston Bibliophile: LT and RL (real life)- do you have friends in real life that you met through LibraryThing? Have you attended any LT meet-ups in your area? Would you be open to attending meet-ups or is LT strictly an online thing for you?

I don't have any real life friends that I've met through LibraryThing yet. Although I tend to be rather shy about meeting new people, I have meet several online friends in real life and even met my husband online. (That makes it sound as if I'm not really shy, doesn't it?) Meeting online people involves the same thing as meeting "real life" people: a hearty dose of common sense. I do have friends (both real life and online) that have joined me at LibraryThing. We live thousands of miles apart, and I think one of the reasons why we joined was the chance to have a good nose through each other's bookshelves. We knew that the chance of doing it in real life was virtually nil. There haven't been any LibraryThing meet-ups in my area as far as I know, although I would certainly be open to the idea.


7 comments:

  1. interesting notion of being able to nose through another's bookshelves in cybertime

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  2. The first thing all my real life friends do when they walk in the house is mosey down the bookshelves, so why should we addicts be any different online? LOL

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  3. I'd be open to a meet-up, as well. I haven't heard of any near me, but I've only been on LT for a month.

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  4. I love poking around in other people's libraries. It's nice you can keep in touch with friends through LT. So far, I haven't been able to interest many "real life" friends in joining up.

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  5. Lol I like the idea of being able to see what books my friends own.... now only if they'd join LT!

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  6. Since Marie's question this morning, I've read more success stories about finding significant others and good friends online!

    I haven't met anyone I've "talked" to on LT, but I'm not opposed to it ... just very very busy!

    I've told my real life friends "the next time you're over, you can look at (book x y or z) and see if you want to borrow it". Yikes! Thanks for the lightbulb moment - I'll have them check out my LT library instead!

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  7. Hopefully the light bulb was a CFL! LOL Doesn't it just frost you when you completely overlook the obvious? I know it does me!

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