Feifei Sun's commentary about Facebook sounds a bit long in the tooth. By now I've heard a lot about how online chat sites like Facebook and MySpace have turned into sources for prospective employers eager to glean incriminating tidbits of info about job candidates.

Sun's main concern is with Internet stalkers, not future bosses. She wants to spread the word that unscrupulous Web surfers eye Facebook members as bait. Network TV, as well as public radio, have paid plenty of attention to these abuses.

Recently, my book editor thought it would be a good publicity move if I joined MySpace. I went ahead and joined, hoping, like George Bush, to broaden my base. What I mainly ended up with was not a list of poetry readers' e-mail addresses but, rather, names of sweeties -- "Darlene," "Tanya," "Mary Jane" -- eager to send me their photos au naturel, for a modest fee if I should be interested.

I was not interested. Neither am I caught, pinned and wriggling on the wall, by Sun's piece. Perhaps the best thing about it is Matt Terrell's rushed intro and epilogue. Terrell's remarks sound like comedian Joel Brussell's hilarious mile-a-second disclaimers.

Would anyone care to do a piece on YouTube abuses?