Social Networking is Evil!

If you’ve been a long-time follower of this blog, you should know that my husband, Brian, is the nicest guy in the world. He likes everybody, and everybody likes him. If you know him, you would never want anything bad to happen to him. And then, social networking did.

Brian stays away from any and all sites where he would reveal anything about himself (such as Facebook, myspace, etc). However, he did find some value in Twitter, in that he could follow a gazillion news outlets and get his news in one place. Then, tonight, he found an old friend of his on Twitter… here we go.

Brian asked me how to contact him. I told him that unless they were following each other, direct messaging wasn’t possible. So he could opt for “mentioning” him on a tweet, and hope that he will get alerted that he was mentioned and reply. The tweet would be public, of course, so he should reveal only things he wouldn’t mind the whole world reading.

So, after much pondering and stress, he decided to tweet him and encourage him to follow him, so they could DM each other.

5 minutes later, Brian had not received a response, which started creating a great deal of anxiety for him. “He’s going to reply, right? You think he’ll know who I am? Will he think I’m a spammer?” Seeing him in such state of anticipation, I couldn’t help but wonder what good is all this doing to anyone??? Anything that makes my sweet Brian fall into such state of discomfort cannot be good!

Down with social networking! The root of all evil!!! You have 500 million people, already! Couldn’t you leave my poor husband alone???

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