What do you do when you are an aging pop star and you need some publicity? Yes, you offer yourself to the highest bidder for some reality tv show. And you even get paid for it.

Rock of Love is just another ’substitute family’ for modern singles. They participate in a virtual family / relationship via the tube, while wasting another hour of their life instead of building their own ’social life’.

Tv families are nothing new - but the modern Waltons are much more intimate, personal and ‘real’ then anything before. And with cell phones, internet forums and starblogs they become a part of the daily life.

Big Brother is another example of this social family pr0n. People sitting at home watching other people sitting at home. After several thousand years of a stable social model (the family), technology is currently rewriting the rules of our very social fabric.

PS: You can get all the bitching to win the competition for the dirty old rock star in the video section. Good invention these intranets.