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   Greetings! The purpose of this research guide is to provide you with tools to assist you in the following: 

• Finding books in the library 
• Accessing eBooks (in the library and off-campus)
• Determining best practices for Internet use
• Accessing research materials through the databases
• Citing your sources in MLA format
• Using the library resources from off-campus locations

Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas take on the huge task of visually cataloging social media tools into categories. If you think you know social media, you'll want to take a look at the overwhelming collection of different tools that are used for a variety of purposes.

Comedian, Jack Vale, uses social media accounts to learn information about strangers and mystifies/terrifies them with the results. Geotagging plays a big part in social media use in this video. While it is meant to be funny, the video brings up a lot of interesting questions. Does the general public understand the consequences of public social media accounts? Do they care? Do the consequences outweight the benefits? Will videos like this cause people to change or not?