After some conversation with random people tonight out in town, you may begin to wonder if Facebook really was a good thing after all. After all, what started out in 2004 as someone’s idea of connecting with people has pretty much become the global standard when it comes to writing crap about what you’ve wiped out of your ass, if you’ve eaten recently or play endless amounts of games or “time sponges” designed to keep you from doing anything else on this earth.

Hell, the damn things got a movie out about it all now, called the “Social Network” staring the bloke from Zombieland, trying to sound tough, but all the while coming across as “please mister, don’t take my lunch money and break my ribs.”

But the shocking thing tonight, comes from two random women in an Irish bar near Chinatown.

It turns out that the best way to resolve problems with a man not wanting anything to do with his child from another woman and not pay for it, due to the fact that he can’t afford the child care as he has managed to have another kid in the meantime with someone else, is to send messages to said father via Facebook, as apparently the Child Support Agency doesn’t work.

But now he’s blocked them and now they use a different account to say why don’t you want to talk to us about it, you’ll make the mother resentful this way.

Just read that whole thing back to yourself.

Let it sink in.

Let’s just start by acknowledging the fact that Facebook was originally designed as a way of keeping in touch with people, to stalk women you fancy and put on pictures of things no-one really cares about. But now it’s being used to resolve paternity issues?

What has truly become of us slightly cleaner apes, when we are using a piece of software to sort out problems that used to be sorted out face to face or in the legal system? Why has it magically become some sort of shield against real life, as if it’s on Facebook, it becomes OK? When it appears that more and more, people are clutching their phones to update when they’ve set someone on fire at dinner (LOL), now we’re sorting out real issues on the damned thing?

Somehow you won’t be finding a “like” comment next to that whole situation. Please, someone stop the “modern world”, I want to get off.