Facebook

I've just deactivated my account on facebook, after not bothering with it for quite a long time, and having suspicions about the benefits of constantly pandering to it for about as long now.

Seems like some people still think its totally harmless however: bbc story link



Ok, all that the story tells us is that some criminals aren't all that smart, I know. But I wonder what it reveals about people in general. Do they think that what they mention 'on-line' somehow isn't the same as if they told someone the same thing face-to-face? Or perhaps that whatever they post is treated as 'obviously' fictional because its on the internet, which is a virtual place where things never have any relation to the real world?

Dunno, but you hear of this kind of thing, along with e.g. people admitting to affairs, or skiving off work, all posted on t'internet where they somehow think that it's therefore all fine and dandy!? Madness.

The concept of facebook, myspace, bebo etc isn't one that I'm actually against, since it's a good thing to be able to network like this and share with people. My issue would be with two things - that some folk use the online networking in lieu of 'real' networking, i.e. talking to and meeting with people, and secondly the whole scenario outlined above, of people assuming that the content of the interweb somehow bears no link to the real world.

Got a view on all of this? Feel free to let me know :)