Kathleen, you did a wonderful job with the presentation of your blog. I read the article about the Pope’s warning of alienation risks in social networking and it was very interesting to see what the Church has to say about social networking. Pope Benedict XVI’s views are like my own in that people should not think that their ‘friends’ on Facebook for example, are real friends. I have a number of friends (actual ones) that have over 500 friends, some nearing 1000 friends on Facebook. I guarantee they have not physically met a few hundred of them. I personally find it quite pointless to have ‘friends’ on Facebook if they do not live up to the name.
It is quite humorous the fact that my little brother, still in elementary school, is wanting a cellular phone because his friends at school have it. It is obviously pointless for him to have one for he is still a kid. My sister received a Blackberry for her birthday, and now she is complaining how she wants to switch phones. The fact that her phone goes off every minute from text messages, Facebook notifications, Twitter, Blackberry Messenger makes her annoyed (myself included) with the constant noise and the fact that people cannot leave her alone. She says now that she has a phone, she wants to completely get rid of it.
Social networking is expanding, how far it will go, no one knows. There are various problems with social networking; the fundamental ones in my eyes are the creation of artificial relationships as well as the advertising of one’s life.
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