A few weeks ago, I took the plunge and joined a fairly popular social network. The wondrous one refuses to take the same plunge. As she put it yesterday, social networks are really a form of voyeurism. Do we really need to know when a casual acquaintance is doing their laundry? When someone is out shopping and had a craving for a Pepsi? When someone posts a picture of a cat they saw on the street?
My counter question is where is the line between genuine concern for the details of the lives of others, and completely irrelevant detail? Is there that big a difference between knowing someone found a pretty dress in a store and someone feeling lonely? Not trying to parse the issue along unreasonable lines of reasoning; trying to figure out which part of me is lacking in that in lots of cases, the details deemed relevant are no more relevant to me than the lesser details.
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