I agree. I also have people in my "friends" list that really should be fan pages, but the person didn't set it up that way. In addition, my friends love to post pictures as their avatar that aren't them ... perhaps a sports hero, a cartoon character, a silly image or a humorous cartoon. I have one guy that changes his image multiple times each day and it is almost never actually him. How in the world am I supposed to know those are him? This doesn't take into consideration how the site is actually used.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-animal-chimeras or http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html As a matter of fact, there is a controversy over a related patent that was issued in 1999 (google EP 380646). Canada has already passed national legislation with regards to this issue. This is not fiction, folks. Nor does the legislator deserve to be mocked for the concern he has on the issue. I haven't read the bill, so there may well be good reason to deride this law ... but not because the concern is over something fictitious.

I work for a company outside of the education process. However, we hire lots of young people, either as summer positions, or as newly graduated employees. The MySpace accounts created by school-aged members are not revoked once they come of age. My company can't easily do a whitelist, due to the nature of our business, which includes using the Internet as a search tool. So we are put in a position of blocking myspace and other such portals, so that the bandwidth is available for work activities. Using a proxy site or an anonymizer raises a red flag in our environment, as it is an indicator that the person knows that what they are doing is against the Acceptable Use Policy. I can't believe that ours is the only company dealing with this issue. A generation that has grown up "connected" wants to stay that way -- and occasionally needs to be reminded that the resources they use at work are accessible for personal use, only as a privilege. The needs of the company to get work done outweigh the personal desire to access non work-related sites.