The social networking syndrome

      

If you’re unsure about what I mean, well what else could I mean other than the ’stalking syndrome’? Don’t act like you don’t have it. We all do, well those at least who are active users of social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook. I know I certainly do.

               

 I have to admit I have an account with both. This means endless time wasting and procrastinating when I have better things to do like my uni homework, but instead I will literally log in and out about 10 times a day. I would check more if I could. Yes…as sad as it is just like the rest of you I am a little sticky beak like Colleen from Home & Away who wants to know anything and everything. I call it the ’stalking syndrome’ for a reason, now more than ever I am interested to see what everybody else is doing from browsing their most recent uploaded photos to reading their comments. For some odd reason this gives me satisfaction. Now the targets can range anywhere between ex-boyfriends to girls that I didn’t particularly like back in high school. I mean how could you not stalk when Facebook offers you a News Feed, giving you information about which friend broke up with who, what even they are attending or comments they have received on their page. Honestly, what happened to privacy? No wonder I have ’stalker syndrome’ it seems they like to rub all that juicy goss right in your face.

 

                      

Some of you may think that I am being extreme and that this is the whole purpose of these type of websites, to see how everybody is doing. I disagree. The purpose of these type of websites is to offer the user an easy way to keep in contact with friends and easily connect and interact with other people. Now I can assure you the amount of people who join these websites join them for the sole purpose to ’see’ what everybody else is doing…STALKER! I’d say I have a love/hate relationship with these social networking websites as in one aspect it fufills the stalker in me and on the other hand it is a complete waste of my time.

 

What do you think?