Facebook, Myspace, HiFive etc

Salaam

Ahmed was one of the most sought out after brothers in the MSA and it is well known that many sisters actually joined Centennial MSA just to work with him.

However things took a turn for the worst when his would-be fiancé declined his proposal. “Just when I was about to accept him as my future husband I got a link to his Facebook profile” said Wafia Khalil, 22. “It was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen in my life.” Ahmed may have had a rosy and pleasant exterior but his Facebook profile painted a different side to him. “Covering your face with shisha smoke stopped being cool 3 years ago” explained Khalil. “When his ugly face wasn't being covered with shisha smoke then it was smothered and hugged by some nasty scantily-clad girls. Why would he put such dumb pictures on Facebook?”
Other bizarre pictures of Ahmed featured him tackling a cheerleader, licking a non-Zabiha hot dog and an interesting close-up of him shaving his legs and eyebrows to join a fraternity. “Yeah, I got a lot of negative feedback about that but my legs are silky smooth now mashAllah”
Other awkward thoughts that occur in my head during a common Facebook visit:

"Waita minute ... wasn't he a beardo... oh..."
"Waita minute ... isn't she a hijabi ... oh..."
"Waita minute ... isn't he Muslim ... oh..."
And so forth.

Then there were other pictures that were like border-line shirk and I'd probably get sinned for even showing such pictures on this website. Filthy.

The above is parts of a spoof article taken from the ManiacMuslim site.

I took pasted the above cos it has a lot of truth in it - SO many Muslims have HiFive, myspace or Facebook accounts - and a name/email search in my free time into HiFive websites can sometimes paint a picture of someone you thought you knew very well….

Why do people think it’s necessarily to post dodgy pictures of themselves for the world to see? Why don’t people worry about others finding them? Doesn’t this give license for God knows how many weirdo’s to access this information and therefore stalk them?

Have you got a facebook/myspace etc account? Have you ever found out stuff about people you thought you knew very well through this account? Do you ever search people names/email addresses?

And what is the point of these accounts?

Wasalaam