Social Networking

Spreads like oozing larva

Only it can be controlled

Its path can be redirected

For good or evil

The choice is ours.

Amazed!

I’ve just opened a Google account

It connects me to blogger and

Blogger to my facebook account

And more . . .

Should I be afraid?

This spider like creature

Knows who I am

Once I sign into any one of

My Google powered social network sites.

Like a child joining the dots

In his colouring book

A click of my mouse

Allows me to link

Countless pages to my facebook wall.

It remembers me

And takes me straight to my wall

Should I be trusting this spider

How poisonous is its vermin

Will it turn back to bite me?

If I can jump from page to page

Without being asked for my password

Is the information safe with

This creature with spreading tentacles

From hackers who too click with their mouse.

Will the stint of the malting larva    

Be protection enough

From the lurking prey

That set their traps

In the triangles of social networking world.

Yet what a tool it is

Through the process of my working day

To have all my business contacts

On one page

Altering me to opportunities to spread my wings.

Giving me the power to connect

With writers, publishers and industry supports

Altering me to workshops, competitions

While linking me to other bloggers

I guess I need to trust the spider won’t bite me.

Debbie Chilton (c) Copyright July 2011

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