Facebook

I'm already signed up to Facebook and I really like it even though I'm not a particularly active user. My brother has been living overseas for a long time and I only see him every year or two so I initially joined to see his travel photos. I'm not really interested in collecting lots of 'friends' - I have just a small number of people who are all either family or my actual friends, not work friends who I see every day. One of my friends has over 600 Facebook friends - what's the point? I'm pretty lazy at keeping in touch with people, so I find Facebook useful as I can check on my friends all in one place. Facebook has also enabled me to reconnect with a couple of old friends who I had lost touch with, which has been really cool. I do sometimes think about the privacy aspect of social networking sites though. In the recent Sophie Elliot murder case, there was evidence presented during the trial (and then splashed across the media) concerning her Facebook activity e.g. her photos, whose profiles she was looking at etc. Terrible for her family to see her life exposed in that way. It is a good reminder that anything you do online is traceable and therefore public.