Obama Facebook Poll: "Should Obama Be Killed?" Pulled From Site, Secret Service Investigate - UPDATED (PHOTOS)

Obama Facebook Poll: "Should Obama Be Killed?" Pulled From Site, Secret Service Investigate - UPDATED (PHOTOS)

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Wow! This sort-of goes along with some thoughts I've been having about social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, etc..

Over the last few weeks, I've been thinking about the affect these sites have on society. I was worried that online networking sites were taking the place of society for many people.

Remember, Thomas Paine regarded society as a "blessing". Are we really doing society justice through sites like Facebook and MySpace? I know many readers of this blog will differ, but I will attest that social networking sites are, in fact, detrimental to society.

Over the past two years, I assumed incorrectly that membership to social networking sites would naturally curtail as the era of grandiose bragging diminished. In other words, is it still cool to flash fake gang signs with your "homies" out front of the Bellagio while your car was being repo'd and your house was in foreclosure? Evidently, it is.

How more apt are you to go online and join a blog or networking site than go out to city council meeting? Are you more likely to go online and learn about people of the world sharing a different viewpoint than yours or to find people who think as you? The crux of my argument can be summed-up as this: IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN TEN FRIENDS ON YOUR (FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, ETC.) PROFILE AND YOU DO NOT KNOW THE NAMES OF YOUR NEIGHBORS, F@#& YOU - YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

That's right. I'll say it again, F@#& YOU - YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

I say this because I am 36 years old (albeit going on 15), and I can remember a time when my family knew everyone on our street. I don't just mean the people's names and which house they lived in but really knew them. How differently would you think about social issues if you knew everyone on your street?

Think about it.

Would you be more tolerant to opposing religions if you discovered the guy from down the street who often brought-in your trashcans was a Muslim?

Think about it.

Would you be more tolerant to issues of individual rights if you knew that the nice kid from down the street came from homosexual parents?

Think about it.

If you weren't wasting your life getting to know people from your kindergarten class, you may have found out your neighbor was hoping someone would help him with his campaign to change America.

Or, he was Timothy McVeigh.

Think about it.