Seventy exabytes of data will be created this year through blogs, books, tweets, Facebook updates, new Web sites and more. It is the equivalent of 518,000 Libraries of Congress - woah. With this much content, we risk the Internet and social media someday becoming ultimately worthless. With purposeful interactions, however, social media tools can add value to our lives beyond simply connecting to our friends. Bill Handy, visiting professor at Oklahoma State University in the School of Media and Strategic Communications, will discuss the theoretical concepts of social media and guide us beyond the traditional and trivial uses. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of the value of social media and the larger implications it has to our lives, society, businesses and organizations. This event is for adults and teens, so go see my friend Bill at Central Library today.