We now live in a “virtual” world. A TGiF world where T=Twitter, G=Google, i=iPads/iPhones (and all the other i-devices), and F=Facebook. In the next couple of months, Facebook will be going public. The only questions are a) whether Facebook's IPO be the biggest IPO in American history; b) how soon this summer will Facebook reach 1 billion users (that’s 1/7 of the planet’s population); and c) whether or not Facebook is really worth 100 billion dollars?

Regardless of how you answer those questions, all of life now happens “online” in some way or fashion, according to some view or on some venue.

There is good and bad about this TGIF world.

A bad? We leave our kids to fend and to fashion an identity for themselves out of mass‑mediated images. At least three things are wrong with this: 1) ma…