With the Internet explosion inevitabley came the explosion of the Social Media based website – Facebook now holding the crown of big dog on the web. Of course with that explosion came the forced reconnection with every person you ever knew in your life span, and practically everyone they knew. In the end you end up with friend lists consisting of hundreds of people you rarely, if ever, talk to and hundreds more you probably don’t even know. As an example on my Facebook account I have dozens of friends with my quirky last name. Do I know any of them? Are any of the relatives? Nope and nope. So why are they friends of mine? Why do I get force fed their daily updates like some Guantanamo inmate being fed dog food for lunch?

With the ridiculous explosion of these sites came a new era of snobbery: The ignore option. Before you could receive an invite to become someone’s buddy, whereby, as I already covered, you’d get every update they post about their latest excursion the restroom after that mean carne asada burrito they had for lunch, where you’d be forced to either accept their buddy invite or openly shun them! Now you can graciously accept their invite and then go to your setting and choose ignore them! As far as they are concerned you two are now life long buddies who may one day give each other an organ when in reality they have been locked away forever in the whogivesashit dungeon and that your social network of choice empowered you with.

GlazedNConfused once wrote a bit on being dropped as a buddy and how totally anticlimactic that really was. With this new set of features (Facebook, Myspace and Twitter all have them) you ignore someone without offending them! Just think about it! Even more ways for us to be politically correct! Instead of telling JessicaBigboobs that her posts on what she had for breakfast every day are more boring that watching old people screw, in effect letting her know the nice way that she should choke on her own vomit, you can instead just ignore her in a kindly fashion so that she can go on torturing those who have yet to discover the ignore command. Splendid indeed.

Keep the inventions coming guys, soon social networking with be stomachable.