Sometimes addiction to social networking and mobile technologies becomes a dangerous illness, which shows itself in mysterious ways. It is hard to predict exact consequences, but the facts are quite negatively impressive.

I like Scoblizer or Robert Scoble a lot for interesting interpretations of nowadays media tendencies. But his real-time baby birth ceremony was something I can not appreciate nor logicaly neither spiritualy. He continuously transmitted various facts from the birth process of his child. Try to feel his emotions of a “real father”:

1. At first he wrote an email to the members of the family and to friends, calling to watch Twitter updates.

2. Then he checked in on Google Latitude, Gowalla, and FourSquare “so that people would know we were at the hospital.”

3. Twitter and FriendFeed were constantly updated.

4. “I also let my Facebook friends know that a baby was on the way. That made sure I got as many people to know something was about to happen as possible.”

5. Finally an iPhone is used to capture an image and to post it across all possible platforms. The screen was monitoring reactions from all over the world. (You are checking reactions, not your baby?..)

6. SLR and 5D MKII were used also.

7. Back to the iPhone and here he made a first image of newly born kid.

8. Flickr was involved immediately for uploading fresh photos.

9. And the finish: audio recording feature on iPhone captured the first cry of the baby and then it was uploaded via email to FriendFeed.

10. Thats all. Sorry, I can not analyse this social networking ceremony. I leave it just as it is. Make your own conclusions.

Even this odd action of Robert Scoble has some good insights about absorbing information in various types of social media. Explore them.