Social Networking is a Scourge
Ok, so I’m reading an article this morning about social networking and how someone came up with a website called www.pleaserobme.com and it amazes me how people think this is going too far. It seems also that people think that just cause are world is increasingly digital, that old world crime won’t happen to them.
Wake-up people! Thieves aren’t just breaking into your Ebay account, there still throwing a brick through your sliding glass window, to steal the very computer you used to tell everyone online about how they stole your Ebay Account. Our world may seem purely digital, but crime isn’t…yet. Security is relative, subjective and sometimes seems philosophical. When it comes to thievery the old saying really applies “when there’s a will, there’s a way”. Some of you reading this might be thinking that this kind of attitude means that we should all just give up…wrong. Security is like the old adage of out running a bear. I don’t have to out run the bear; I just have to out run you. Security is the same way, I don’t have to out secure the robber, I just have to out secure you. The criminal will take the path of least resistance.
This takes me to another issue, about how social networking is a scourge on our digital society. I believe that the really root of the problem lies in the inappropriate use of these social networking sites by people who didn’t have any social skills to begin with. Plus who don’t know how to use the technology and/or media to begin with also. If your divorce proceedings mattered that much to me I would ask you about it! Plus I don’t need a status update about how angry you are for having to wait for three hours at the DMV to get your plates renewed. I could care less! Also if you’re really that interested in my life, then why don’t you call, or call me back when I call.
Being an independent, antisocial, loner, with loose family ties and out of the loop when it comes to family gossip (which social networking is actual good for) means I have no use for it currently in any way, shape, or form. Because gossip, rumor, and insinuation don’t interest me very much, they serve no useful propose.
These are just some of the reasons among many that have kept me from these sites.
Stay Educated,
Bryan Danielson
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