Some people...

This whole online "social media" outlet (Blogs, MySpace, Facebook, etc.) allow people to just say what they want too. I guess that's good, but it can also be bad. It's changing society. People don't have to face anyone, confront anyone, deal with the consequences as they are safely hidden behind the other side of the keyboard and computer screen.

Why do you need to tell someone you're bored real-time? Why does it matter to others? Keeping up with friends as lives change and people do other things, I can understand that. An email is just as easy, but MySpace and Facebook allows you to see everyone's information all in one place. Is this an outlet for our young adults? Now they won't need to talk to their parents, the parents can just keep up with them online, reading their Facebook comments. Or even worse, parents not monitoring them at all. No need to "talk" anymore, just send them a text message or post a message on their page. Is this pushing the kids of this generation away and into a shell? They are losing social skills. Am I the only one thinking this? Hearing more and more about kids fighting over someone's comments online. See, there are consequences! And what about a parent secretly taking advantage of a young adult. This is someone that should know better. Lack of social skills or parental monitoring causes a kid to kill herself. Why??? I'm not even going to go into the predator and pedophile issues.

The youth today don't have to think about it, just post a message and it's done. They are not old enough to understand the ramifications of what might happen. They don't have the social skills.

Yes, I understand free speech and I know I'm using a blog right now. Someone needs to bring this up. Why now me?