The “Friending Frenzy”

It's too much for me, this impulse to “friend” someone so you can keep them up to date on your every movement, including bowel, I assume.

Now I read that even if you are e-reading you can tell your friends what you're reading and what page you're on and whether or not you like the story. But you can only read the books available from the company whose e-reader you bought. Bummer. So many books, so little time.

And just this afternoon we met someone whose daughter is now tattooing the faces of her Facebook friends on her arm. It's the latest rage, I hear. What happens when you are no longer friends? Are the tats removable or do you have to cut off your arm?

This “friending” and Twittering is epidemic and there is no cure in sight. A certain congressman from New York is its latest victim. Fatal to his career, no doubt.

A cautionary tale for anyone caught up in the wildness of the internet. What happens there doesn't stay there long. It's all over the world. For better or worse.

It boggles my muddled mind.