July Success Stories

Success Story #1:

I had a 12-year-old girl come in to the Berwick C@P site last month for a 1-on-1 about Facebook. Her parents wanted her to learn about Facebook, particularly about safety and privacy and write an essay before allowing her to get an account. She showed up with lots of questions which we went through and I showed her how to use it and provided her with information on Facebook and Internet safety for teens to take home to her parents. I felt it was successful because she left the library with the facts she needed to write her essay and it provided her parents with facts to inform their decision about Facebook as well. It was interesting for me too because people sometimes ask me about Facebook safety and whether teens should be on it which is a touchy subject but I learned more about the safety and privacy aspect of it myself during my 1-on-1.

Success Story #2:

I assisted a woman last month in connecting her laptop to wireless internet because she was having trouble figuring out how to set up her D-link device with her laptop. She was really pleased about successfully being able to connect to networks from that point on because she needed to use the internet as part of her business to fill orders and e-mail customers and so on.