I’m not known for Internet fads. Everyday I recieve many emails along the lines of “Kevin Rudd has added you to his Facebook. Would you like to join?”

The answer is, of course, shit no. I would barely even have heard of FaceBook if it wasn’t for The Age – a quick Google search of their domain reveals 525 hits for “FaceBook”.

Are these Age journalists really that enthralled by a fairly popular social networking site that they deem it news 525 times? It is of no surprise to find that not one of these news stories was even of the slightest importance. No “Osama found in Facebook offices”, no “Facebook spills oil along Alaskan coast”, not even a “Facebook deems itself President For Life”.

So why the interest?

Any theories?