"Friend" or "Facebook stalker"?

Social media has had an undoubted affect in the way in which modern culture communicates and therefore runs. Even to he point that the meaning and constructs of word have completely changed; for example, the word "friends" was once used as a term of indeerance and perhaps calling someone a friend at a previous point in time has a more profound and valued meaning. However now, thanks to social networking sites (infamously facebook) a friend is your ex best-friends, former boyfriends aunties cousin, who knows of you, not you. In every day life the notion of calling someone youve only met once or perhaps never even met would seem ridiculous. However 17% of adult facebook users say they speak to of have "friends" on their profile they don't even know. This poses the danger of an overflowing source of personal information being available to complete strangers. Even after all the "how well do you know so and so" applications freely available on the site. The worst part about it all is how willing we are to allow these "friends" into every aspect of our daily lives, without the thought of danger... Ask yourself if you would want a stranger looking at photos of you on a night out or with your family, would you want them knowing where your going or what your having for dinner? So why are we allowing this to happen.