There is constantly issues with sites like Facbeook, YouTube, Myspace, where people are bullying, trolling, or just being tools (for one of a better term), however to be a mennace on these sites, you had to create  fake profiles and email accounts, and it is time consuming. Formspring allows its functionality with no prior screening.

So, in essence, it’s a pretty pointless site. However, people start using services like this, and get people asking questions. The first kinds of questions you’ll see straight away, are have you had sex, or are you gay, pointless, immature questions that are only there to antagonise or upset the author.

What’s more frustrating is to see people use this service, then finally wake up and realise, hang on, this totally stupid and then start to bag the application as if it caused the bullying or harassment that went on. Even though the authors knew specifically what Formspring was doing, and not doing.

I like the following quotes on gawker.com

Formsping.Me should come with a warning label you have to check off before you use it: BEWARE. WILL CAUSE LINGUISTIC, INTELLECTUAL, AND EMOTIONAL DIARRHEA.

This is a dangerous, mischievous platform of oversharing that is, at best, indulgent, and at worse, the most self-serving experience one can create for themselves on the internet from every which angle you approach it. For the people asking the questions, it’s an anonymous comment box that they can inundate their interviewees with candid interrogation after interrogation.

For the people answering the questions, it fulfills so many awesomely narcissistic desires: you’re on a stage, you’re interested in by people asking the questions, or if asked about any number of various topics, the desire to feel like some kind of authority on something. At the very least, someone wants to hear something from you, and you get to sit there and think of an answer. And if there’s anything better than being desired, its having someone take some kind of interest in you.

Read the rest of the article here.

Regardless of what you think the Labor government is doing with economics or anything else, they are quickly developing a bad reputation for dealing with modern communications, things like the NetFilter and now the Qld Labor govt. giving police more rights to look at anything they want… Not doing too well at this stage.

From News.com.au

FEARS have been raised about police abusing new phone-tapping powers to snoop on social networking sites such as Facebook and private emails.

Leading criminal lawyer Jim Coburn accused the State Government of “fudging” the scope of the telephone intercept powers, which start this year.

“(Police) will have authority to eavesdrop on communications, be they speech, music or sounds, data, text, images or signals,” Mr Coburn said.

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What really annoys me is motorcycle riders. They are one of the biggest pains on the road, more so than slow or bad drivers. 

Sitting at traffic lights, a motorcycle rider will fly up in between the gaps and up beside you, making it either hard or very dangerous to turn, or go straight again. The arrogance of most riders is astounding! 

Cruising down the highway doing the speed limit, or even keeping up with the “crowd”, it’s common for me to see a motorbike to fly up and overtake me,  not uncommon for them to be breaking the speedlimit well and truly by 20km/h and passing over double white lines, making it so illegal and dangerous. 

My thoughts are, why should these riders be treated with the same respect you give fellow motorists when they clearly don’t deserve it.