Are smart phones so smart?

I recently had my "smart phone" taken out of my bag in Birmingham. I had the iPhone 4... It literally had my whole life on it, which is great if I have it, but what happens when it gets taken by a stranger.
Even if you block the phone it possible to get the phone unblocked for some random person to use.
It worries me that someone in Birmingham is now enjoying my phone while I am using an OLD SCHOOL nokia (im talking snake old).
So my question is, are smart phones as smart as we make them out to be? The information I had on mine is now lost and floating around somewhere. It would be really smart if they could invent a way to delete all the information on the phone after it has been blocked after being stolen, as I cant help but be worried at who is looking at my pictures and videos that were stored on MY smart phone, which is now lost forever.

Not calling in New Years Resolutions anymore... Instead "To Do List" 2011...

1) Get back to being a size 8... Gained loads of weight at uni! Not good at all...
2) Focus! Spend more time in the Library next semester!
3) Be positive, "positivity breeds positivity" after all :-)

"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.