Why hide on a Social Network?

Something that has always ticked me off about the stuff that goes on the Internet is this whole "Privacy" thing. And I'm not talking about Privacy in the sense of real world information (ie. Address, real name etc etc.) I'm talking about Privacy in the sense of a Social Network.

Take Facebook for example. Here you have this social networking device that lets people become friends with people around the world. You simply look at some person and say "I want this person to be my friend" and you wait for their approval. If your lucky they say yes and if not well tough luck for you (Victor Lucas, I'm still waiting for my approval). But what really makes me mad is this privacy thing they have.

So basically, you can edit some of the options to set your Facebook to private, where only you can choose who you want to be friends with. And what that translates to me is "I m better then everyone on the Internet thing and only I will select who is my friend, and you should be privileged to be one of them."

Like what the hell has crawled up your ass to take that mentality? Seriously, do you really think your that special? Now, in their defence, they have some weird ideas in their head, such as "I don't want weird people to add me as their friend." or "I don't like having random people cluttering up my status updates". And to those people, I say: YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO ADD THEM, YOU CAN EVEN IGNORE THE RANDOM FRIEND REQUESTS! Now, I should note that I do have some friends on my list are in fact, set to private but this is before they ever found that option.

But I've always been a shy guy, I always hated having to deal with the whole request thing. Which is why I found twitter to be so awesome. Twitter basically has this "follow" button where if you find someone interesting, you click on the button to follow all their "tweets". There is no acknowledge meant of "Ok, you can follow me." which I loved. Until I realized that it does in fact have this stupid feature. Now there are a few people out there that don't use twitter much and only want to follow their friends and fine, that's ok.... I guess.... at the minimalist.... its acceptable. But there have been people I've been following that asked for their approval to follow them that DON'T OFFER ANYTHING INTERESTING TO SAY! It's all the generic "Oh, my day was fine!" bull crap! "Today I went and got ice coffee!". At what point do you think, with those "tweets", you deserve to have some form of privacy? What does it serve other then loosing some followers that don't want to deal with that?

I just can't wrap my head around the idea that some people want to stay in a closed cage when their on the Internet. Everyone is on it, we're all in the same boat, fuck you for locking yourself up. Like why bother even joining a Social Network where the idea is to network socially when your hiding yourself?

The weird part about all this is that most people that have the most tight knit privacy settings are the most fucking sociable people in real life. But for some reason, on the Internet, they choose to hide themselves.

We ALL deal with spam accounts and weirdos. Maybe not as much as you special people, but we still get them. Your no different from the rest of the people on the Internet.