Bloom off the rose of social networking?

In today's paper (The Windsor Star www.windsorstar.com 'No Time for Facebook'), there was an article about a Facebook revolt where people are getting fed up with spending so much time on Facebook that they don't have the time to do anything of interest to write about. It talks about the lack of interest in social networking sites. People are logging off and are actually going back to the old fashioned face-to-face conversation.

Perhaps this is another example of what is old is new again. Facebook has definitely been in the news as of late as people are starting to figure out that information stored on their accounts is never actually deleted or private. People have to be cautious about what they share as the information just might come back to hurt them one day. I know that I had to delete my Facebook account (suggested by the GECDSB) so that I cannot be associated with inappropriate behaviour such as drinking or drugs. You never know what my 23 and 21-year old nephews and their friends might post. I could be tied into something by someone I don't even know. I guess this is what some Facebook people are actually discovering.

One person had his account hacked into and then was known by his explosive rants to all his friends and his 'secret' confession of homosexuality and other activities. Of course, none of it was true. But it was posted to Facebook and everyone knows what is one the Internet must be true. Don't they? Lesson learned a bit too late. For this guy, it confirmed that he was done with social networking and Facebook completely.