1. Facebook is more alive than ever!

2. Waaaww! More than 5 billion people on this planet have a Facebook account!

4. The richest man on the planet! $ 25.000.000.000.000

5. I’m also on Facebook!

6. Monopoly Not difficult to understand: Facebook is the only social medium left on the planet! Zuckerberg’s opponents all died in mysterious ways…

7. Cut the crap!

8. I have a story to tell… Yes, in 2016 stories still exist. Amazing, isn’t it! What’s more: stories are more popular than ever. Mine is a short story. I don’t like 900 pages stories.

9. Like this one…

10. Awwright! What do I do for a living?

11. I work in a library

12. I’m part of the educational staff

13. Sometimes I teach

14. Sometimes I don’t…

15. Sometimes I’m an…

16. Sometimes I’m just…

17. Opportunity One day my boss came into my office, she gave me a leaflet and told me: “This is something for you. You should do this! It’s an opportunity for your career. I want you to become a social media coach in our library.”

18. Wow! That sounded like I was going to earn more money!

19. New horizon! But what was it about? I read the leaflet carefully and after that I was totally convinced that my boss was right: a new horizon was set out for me!

20. KHLIM, C-Mine, Genk Organisation of a post-graduate ‘Sociaal en participatief gebruik van ‘sociale media’.

21. The great unknown My boss paid for it. The only thing I had to do, was to get into my car every two weeks and drive to the Far East of this country. Limburg was like unknown territory and I felt like an alien…

22. Welcome to Limburg!

23. A man needs a plan From the beginning, me and my co-students were told by the very friendly staff of the post-graduate that we had to create and implement a project in our organisation. That sounded very serious…

24. As serious as…

25. Two projects of my own! Idealistic (and ambitious) as I am, I decided to create two projects: First of all I wanted to create a Facebook and a Twitter account for my library. Second, I wanted to organise social media lessons for my colleagues and for target groups like elder people, refugees and adult students learning Dutch.

26. First step… I decided to start with the creation of a Facebook and a Twitter account for my library.

27. Every goddamn library! Nowadays every library should have a Facebook and/or a Twitter account. Without them, they’re kind of…

29. O, by the way… this is how my library looked a couple of years ago:

30. More…

31. And this is how it looks now

32. Great, isn’t it?

33. Back to business! First of all I realised that nobody working in my library had access to Facebook. Government policy!

34. Shit! This was not going to make things easier for me!

35. So, what did I do… I said to my boss: “Boss, we need a Facebook account, and we need it quick, because we are hopelessly behind!” Her answer: “Get lost! Mind your own business! Don’t you know we already have a Facebook account!”

36. So I said… “Where the hell is it!!!”

37. “And why did nobody tell me!”

38. Her answer: “It’s still offline ‘cause there’s no social media policy yet!”

39. Great! Nice to hear! And my boss continued: “You were not told because you’re part of the educational staff, and not of the communication staff!”

40. Was she kiddin’?

41. NO! SHE MEANT EVERY WORD SHE SAID!!!

42. There I was, dreaming of… a Facebook account for my library…

43. Ggggrrrrr! Too late for the Red Monkey Principle!

44. Aiaiai! Too late for being a talkaoke host!

45. Dedju, toch! Too late for mind mapping!

46. Merde! Too late for playing games!

47. So, when I finally woke up… I didn’t see the light, but this:

48. Soon followed by…

49. My personal coach! He told me: “Drop the first step of your far too ambitious project. Focus on the second one. What do you want to do? Teach people? Well, then write a manual. Write a Facebook manual and concentrate on that. And then be a good teacher!”

50. Wow! I felt relieved. What is that simple? Yes, it was! Concentrate! Focus! And stay focused!

52. Now, five years later… here I am!

53. Teaching elder people… how to create a Facebook account!