and the way they are presented as "alerts" creates more suffering than it's worth. Alerts should be for things like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes, not upcom

and the way they are presented as "alerts" creates more suffering than it's worth. Alerts should be for things like tornadoes, floods and hurricanes, not upcoming birthdays. And even more fundamental than that, most of us are unprepared to deal with such intimate knowledge of one another. The goody-goodies are losing it when they realize how much suffering there is in the world. It makes us all feel so powerless (if we let it). Humans apparently evolved to have enough memory to deal with about 150 personal relationships... We're now pervaded with human contact and persona from thousands of people at varying distances... And our mistakes, instead of being dealt with on a personal, intimate level of people nearby to us are projecting outwards to the entire globe! And stored there indefinitely! I liked playing low-res video games and calling BBSes, but this world-wide persistent network is too intense!