First we had Metro-sexuals totally screwing up mankind and woosifying America. Now we have Social Networking dumbifying (I came up with that word myself) 
American mentality. I find it unsettling how people fall into the traps of social networking. What is the fascination with having a large following? It’s just like the mentality of 15 year old’s in High School. Who is the most ‘popular’. I never understood it then, and I don’t understand it now.
Now there are sites telling you how to “add xxx followers per day”. Just do a google search for ‘add 500 followers per day’ without the quote. I had 186,000 hits. It’s sort of like a guild in World of Warcraft. You know the ones. When you go into a large city, and someone is shouting “Paying 1 gold for you to join my guild!” Why would anyone join that? It’s definitely a high quality guild. The same goes for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Maybe I’m just a slight conspiracy theorist, but I’m one of those people that value my privacy. I actually take steps to hide my identity from public view. Pull my credit report, and you won’t even find my actual physical residence. I actually pay for a mail box (NOT a P.O. Box either), and have everything of importance that can be linked to my credit addressed there.
Privacy is a rare commodity these days. Big Brother does enough to get all the info he can on a person. Why would anyone make it easier for him?
I think Nancy Reagan said it best, when it comes to Social Networking, “Just Say No!”
Notice how I left MySpace out of this commentary? It’s a given that you have to be under 18 or totally retarded to use MySpace.