The Social Web
It’s a love/hate relationship. I hate to love it and love to hate it. There are times when I logon and literally feel guilty after staying on for more than a few minutes. Specifically, I am talking about Facebook. When I joined it a few years ago, I appreciated its novelty but now everyone, and I mean everyone can join - perverts, rapists, the whole shabang. Any Joe schmo can acquire their own e-mail address, it’s becoming more like MySpace every day. I try to go on as seldom as possible, only to network with classmates from time to time.
It was a cleaner more enjoyable experience when you needed a college e-mail address to sign up. Now everybody and their mother (I’m not joking, my mother just made one and she has absolutely no idea how to use it.) can have a page. I hate to be a negative nancy but most things go to shit with time and Facebook is no exception.
Although I must say, stripped away from all it’s newly acquired glitz and glamour, it CAN BE a proper networking tool.
