Oh, hello annoying status update

Oh dear, I haven't posted in AGES. But I promise it's because I'm super busy, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact I'm a tad lazy. Promise.
So because most of the news lately has been taken up with election talk, and that stuff confuses me to the high heavens (that's going to come back and bite me in the arse when I try to become a journalist), I really have nothing relevant to write about.
Has that ever stopped me though? (The answer is no, in case you were wondering).

I've noticed way too many times lately the amount of people splashing their personal lives all over social networking sites. When I say social networking sites, I'm just giving Facebook and Twitter a fancy name. I have to admit though I'm a sucker for watching a good bitch fight over facey. That doesn't make it a good thing! I don't particularly feel like reading about a certain year 10 girl's disastrous love life, and I definitely don't want to know what that boy I used to work with does in the bathroom in his spare time.
I haven't seen anything really bad on my own news feed, and I myself never buy into doing all that sort of crap.
A) Because it's stupid.
B) Because it's plain humiliating for the person posting crap.
C) Because it's stupid.
D) Because I have family on Facebook... One of them being my mother.
Oh, and did I mention it's stupid?

Pretty bad stuff has come out of it too. There are always those devastating reports about teens harming themselves because of something that was said about them on Facebook. And some of the groups some kids come up with? Sickening.
There's a police trial (I think it's under way at the moment, if it's not though it will be soon) about a bunch of Ballarat teens/young adults who made a Facebook page about the 'sluts' of Ballarat. I don't remember the specifics of the page, only that it had a ridiculous amount of members, and they had a list, yes a list, of local girls who they didn't like. I was (un)fortunate enough to see the group before it was shut down and the stuff posted on the group wall was disgusting.
It's not just Facebook being used to slander, anyone hear the latest Justin Bieber Twitter scandal? Beiber posted a boys phone number on twitter as an act of revenge. The tweet was only up for about 5 minutes or so, but enough damage was done with the boy receiving thousands of calls and texts. Apparently news stations were trying to contact him, but couldn't because his voice mail was full. Poor bugger.

What sort of unnecessary things have you come across whilst social networking?