What is it with civil libertarians and Twitter ?

I love the whole argument that so many people have (and I share) that ID cards, CCTV cameras and many other things the government want to use to track us are infringing our rights, yet then so many of these people then get Twitter, which seems to be a system to allow people to snoop in to your life and let everyone know where you are, what you are doing, what you had for tea, and is the very antithesis of the privacy argument.

I know that people can volunteer what information they put on to Twitter and I know that it does not do any harm, and I also know I will get people shouting me down for saying this, but it just seems to be at odds with the whole privacy argument.

What is the point of Facebook ?

I set up a Facebook group a few weeks ago. I didn't do it to change the world or to be clever or even to massage my own ego. I did it for the simple reason that I do not understand what purpose Facebook actually serves.

People claim that social networking is the future of social networking, in which case, can someone tell me how this is the case ?

To my mind it is like a e-mail newsgroup, a way of collecting e-mail addresses, basically, not anything special or new. However, I'd love to be proved wrong. Really, genuinely, I'd love to see how Facebook and other such tools can be of any value to me or Iain Dale for that matter, who has also announced today that he is setting up a Facebook group.

So if you think Facebook works AND you read this blog, then why not join my Norfolk Blogger Facebook group HERE, and leave a message on the message board telling me how Facebook will change my life.