Life is pretty busy. I came into work this morning to find a cutting from the latest Harper’s Bazaar on my desk, called Caught in the Net. I’m obviously not going to reproduce it here, but here’s a summary: OMG! If you use Facebook and MySpace and Bebo, you friend all these people you don’t know and YOU COULD GET YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN! Or you could come across looking like a wanker!

I haven’t quite worked out yet why people don’t treat the information they put on the Internet with the same care that they would when dealing with real life. As I’ve suggested before, sites like Facebook or MySpace should supplement, not replace, your offline interactions, i.e. only add real friends to your list.

(I have a couple of Internet friends on my list — I met them elsewhere.)

This only adds to my belief that journalists think / believe, rightly or wrongly, that the general public is pretty damn thick.