Yeah, was just thinking that. Were we all psychopaths before spacebook came along?
I, for one, revel in my psychopathy!
When spacebook's privacy features were weak 3-5 years ago, it was common practise for recruitment agents to look you up and see what kind of riff raff you hung around with on the weekend. What you got up to in your private life influenced whether you got a job or not. I've seen other reports now saying that employers are requesting spacebook profiles in job interviews. It is more prevalent in the US, but, hang on, what? Why? That just seems really, really wrong to me. Why should one company's product rule everyone's life the same way? Doesn't that seem odd to people?
I am not one of those people who is resistant to change. I have absolutely no problem with moving along with the times, and keeping up with technology, and adjusting with and to societal norms. I have thought long and hard about opening a spacebook page to advertise my photography business and share my art. But, why should I? Just because squillions of people are on there? How does that make it an authoritative source for everything?
I have a very small Internet footprint. IceInSpace is my most-used social networking site. DP Review is another (been on there for several years and have under 500 posts). 419eater is another, but, I don't have time for it anymore. I post my photography to two art/photography web sites, one of which just has 4-5 images on there. Perhaps I am missing out on making millions of dollars and gaining loads and loads of exposure by sharing my artistic vision with the world. But, to be truthfully honest -- I don't care.
Maybe I might change my mind one day after having an epiphany. But, for now, I'm quite happy to live in bland (Internet) anonymity and do things the old fashioned way.
H