Of all the great things achieved through the internet, it is sometimes good to reflect on the not so good.

Saw this on the digital urban blog and couldn't resist posting it here.

pleaserobme.com describes itself as an effort to raise awareness about the stupidity of some people's use of the location-aware systems associated with Twitter and Google Buzz etc. For example, posting "I'm just going out for a while" when your home's location is available to the whole world through your social networking efforts.

In quite plain English, the site picks up when you post things such as "just leaving home" and links to a map showing your now (presumably) empty home. The concept is hilarious but only in the sense of people's ignorance, the whole being robbed thing is not hilarious in my opinion.

See www.pleaserobme.com for more

Speaking of human ignorance and its hilarious online consequences; the issues associated with the huge influx of non tech-savvy individuals to the online world, due to social networking sites such as Facebook, was highlighted recently when readwriteweb (a well known blog) wrote something entitled "Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login". Amusingly this page ranked higher in Google's search listings for the words "Facebook Login" than the actual Facebook login page.

As a result, Facebook users who simply Google the term "Facebook Login" and click the top result ended up at readwriteweb's blog page. The resulting comments on the readwriteweb page are a reflection of the affected user's tech 'savvyness'.

One such user wrote: This is such a mess I can't do a thing on my facebook .The changes you have made are ridiculous,I can't even login!!!!!I am very upset!!!

Another: What is going on? You are totally confusing me. Knock-knock. Anybody there? Let me in. Katherine

We all have to start somewhere I guess, but once passed that starting stage it's hard not to gain some amusement from the ignorance of others.

On an entirely different note, my updates on this blog are a little sporadic of late as I am currently out of NZ but still fully contactable through the usual avenues. I am in Southeast Asia, you can read about the trip on blogspot: http://ashandjessscott.blogspot.com

Sorry about the lack of direct links; link tool isn't working and I'm too tired to fix it right now.