I do get where you're coming from. And your social circles probably are a lot larger than mine. So I can feel your pain. Personally I've never really got into Twitter, so that kind of helps. I think. But I do have a couple of people on FB who have a tendency to be a bit too happy with their status updates.

But I don't think it's just social networking that is to be blame. We do get bombarded with information from so many different directions so much these days that it's really no surprise that we're getting information overload. That's why it's always so much fun when you can take a break from it all. Even if it's for just a few days.