Social Crapworking

If you're on the internet, and you are if you're reading this. Chances are you also have a tab opened to Facebook or Twitter (or MySpace if you haven't figured out how uncool that site is yet) and if you're a guy statistics say a porn site tab is also in there. The fact of the matter is that the American society from age 11-20 can basically be summed up in two words, social networks.
Now, social networks can be pretty awesome. They can be used to keep in touch with friends who other wise it would be close to impossible to stay in contact with. Find out news of what is going on in the rest of the world or get that douche bag at work fired for posting drunken pictures of him up on your wall. Ok, that's not exactly a good thing but it goes along with what people are really using these sites for.
Instead of using them for the aforementioned reasons most people use social networks for stupid reasons, except the drunken photos one, that one is suppose to be down here; just in case you have no sense of irony. I was on Twitter recently and noticed that one of the most talked about subjects was a thing that happened with musical "artist" (I put this in quotes because it honestly hurts me to say anyone who was on American Idol is an artist) David Archuleta. Now, I don't know what this is about exactly but it appears to have stemmed from a Twitter post from the big D-man himself about gays or something.
My question is, who cares? Honestly? Really people, with all the things that are going on in the world this is what we've come to murder our valuable time with? Whether this Archuleta guy is gay or not shouldn't matter to anyone, Adam Lambert already had that market cornered. More on him in a later post. Here's the problem with social networks, they become a wasteland of rumors and time wasting bull crap. People use them to get into fights and to spread gossip that everyone else swallows like a baby being fed sugar laced milk or something without spending the slightest second to stop and think about how pointless all of it is.
Now, I'll admit, everyone is allowed to talk about something stupid every once in awhile. It's a given right that everyone has their blond moments every now and then. But I think we can all admit that there are some people in this world who are like this all the time, they hardly, if ever say an intelligent thing. Ok, that's fine, there's just a couple out there right? No, they're everywhere. And thanks to social networking sites they're allowed to meet up and then something horrible happens...they multiply!
I'm not sure how it happens but social networks literally make people stupid (this is my own theory, but you just wait, science will be backing me up soon). Facebook and Twitter make people think that they're connected with the world, they believe that just because they follow people they don't personally know or are "friends" with people they've never met that they know what's going on in the outside world. This is not true. Facebook CAN NOT be one's only portal to the news at large, otherwise all that person is going to get is worthless gossip and Farmville invites.
The point is that people need to take social networking sites less seriously. Stop sitting at your computer playing with your digital heroin i.e. Facebook and check out some stuff going on in the outside world. And when you are on Facebook or Twitter try looking up some news sites. It won't kill you to actually put valid information into your head. I could also say something about how these things have obviously gotten taken to seriously when CNN looks up these pointless sites for information, I mean Jesus. And businesses, back off, you owners are just as bad as the people you hire so get over yourselves. Like I say, stop taking the networking sites so seriously
Oh, and parents, stop stalking your kids with this stuff. It just gives them one more reason not to come home from school on the weekends. And yes, that goes for the parents who aren't "friends" with their kids but use their real-life friends to spy on their kids for them.