Facebook: Virtual Crack For The 21st Century

No one can accuse Corey Kinney of being the sharpest knife in draw. The 19-year-old approached Gary Lyman inside a Bradenton, FL. Starbucks and asked if he could use Lyman’s laptop to check his Facebook page. Lyman said he was too busy to let Kinney use the $4,000 laptop. Kinney began to walk away, then turned around, grabbed the laptop and ran out into the parking lot where he was brought to the ground by a couple “Good Samaritans”.  It wasn’t reported if Kinney wanted to update his Facebook status, take the “Which Krispy Kreme Doughnut Are You” quiz or just send a virtual Moonpie to one of his online Friends. I’m going to write “Which Dumb Criminal Are You?” quiz for Facebook.

Social media websites, like Facebook and the style challenged Myspace, are addictive. These sites are making it easier to find people you went to Kindergarten with or the cute redhead you worked with that summer in Atlanta. Social websites are the best place to invest a lot hours and occasionally network professionally as by product. While today social media seems like a couple steps away from the CB radio craze of the 1970s, they do have plenty of work related and quality of life uses.

As the market is maturing more boutique social networks are emerging for ethnic, health, geographic and hobby audiences daily. You can evan make your pet a star on YouPet.com! That’s right ladies and gentlemen, you can throw some of Spot’s and Fluffy’s photos up on the Internet and let them network with others in there species. Maybe I’ll put Gizmo the cat a page up seeing how it’s free. This video may demonstrate how that might work out.

It not known what will be the fate of young Corey Kinney. Hopefully he won’t go dipping his toes into the pool of criminal enterprise again and grown wiser from the incident. For the rest of us, the moral of his cautionary tale is it’s not a crime to keep you status updated constantly.

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