I have always been interested in the idea of social networking as a means of keeping up to date with my profession. I began by joining mailing lists, then made a brief foray into Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest, but didn’t really become comfortable with using any of them professionally. Facebook is, for me, a way of keeping up to date with what my extended family are doing. I do not have any non-family “Facebook friends”, and I protect my privacy fiercely. Pinterest is a good way of collecting information together, and I have recently begun to use it again as a “virtual scrapbook” – but have not as yet engaged in communication with other Pinterest users. I do have a LinkedIn account, but have not yet worked out how to use it, so cannot really gauge how useful LinkedIn might be.