It's my time.

During a group brainstorm at a previous job, I accidentally announced that I had a MySpace profile.

We were talking about how to promote new Internet applications and I thought it would make sense to say, “I think it would help if we got influential early adopters to use the service. It’s like MySpace. I didn’t want to join, but all my friends did – so I had to or I would be left out.”

The resulting silence was broken only when someone screeched, "You're on MySpace?!"

Attempting to get us back on track, my boss said, “What we do on our own time is our own business,” which ended the conversation until an hour later, when she pulled me aside and added, “You know I don’t care about what you do on your personal time. I just care that you’re happy and you’re healthy.”

I felt like telling her that the last time I checked, using the Internet did not put you at risk for contracting an STD.

Of course that’s what I thought until I learned that a site called OnlineBootyCall existed.

Designed to “combine all the benefits of dating with the excitement of maintaining the single life,” OnlineBootyCall boasts making "millions of personal connections every week” and providing “an interactive and fun dating site where 'you don't have to promise marriage just to get a date!'"

Now, what OnlineBootyCall users do on their own time is their own business – but I happen to think that when people sign up for a service that brags about its “rapidly growing [user]population” they're also bound to encounter some rapidly growing, um, problems.

Of course, I don’t expect to see a press release about that.