The Joys of Social Networking.

Recently came across this on Youtube.





Anyway the vid is pretty hilarious Hair Rock ode to the dangers of parents and facebook. So it got me thinking about how it almost seems as if the Social Networking phenom is becoming a victim of it's own success. If everyone you know has access to a page that you update with everything in your life... it can lead to a lot of complications to say the least.

The obvious solution is to have privacy settings to group people into levels of access and have most information kept to a close circle - but then doesn't it get to the point of idiodicy?
If one has to spend as much time on facebook keeping track of social niceties as in real life (with the addition of viral permanance of things posted on the net), then I would think the hassle would make a lot of people just stop using it.

Politicians and other public figures have already been burned simply by not understanding the danger in posting your unfiltered thoughts to the whole world.

If someone stood on a street corner and shouted their every thought for all passersby - one would naturally assume they are insane, yet posting the very same thing for the whole world to see in a semi-permanent medium... well, that's just social networking.

Meh, it's all in good fun though, social media is a great thing as long as people understand what they are dealing with, as the saying goes "It's all fun and games till someone loses an identity".