I’m often asked what I think of social networking sites, especially the big three, Facebook, YouTube and MySpace. In a nutshell, “Life’s too short”.

We don’t do rants here at Syntagma, so that limits my response somewhat. However, there’s a gross and witty piece over at The Register by Otto Z. Stern, “a director at The Institute of Technological Values — a think tank dedicated to a more moral digital age”.

Otto definitely speaks for me — although minus some of his more gruesome analogies.

So zip over to El Reg for Syntagma’s less than polite opinions on the current state of social networking : “Beware the populist mash oozing out of Facebook and YouTube”.

And I didn’t even mention Twitter.