In the gym listening to my regular dose of comedic Britishness from BBC Radio 4’s podcast of The Now Show when the song maestro Mitch Benn broke into a little song-ette about kids in British primary schools being taught about social networking.

The podcast has expired, due to crazy assed BBC rules so I dug up the song on YouTube and present it here for your enjoyment.

Teaching Kids About the Internet on YouTube

Lyrics

A blog is just a diary,
you post on the Internet,
so everybody in the world can read along.

It means you’re under the impression,
that your every waking thought,
is a source of fascination but you’re wrong.

Then there’s MySpace which is full of dreadful Indie bands,
who want a record deal although it’s a lost cause.
Then there’s Facebook which is mainly a way to reassure yourself,
that your buddies’ lives are just as dull as yours.

A podcast is a radio show,
you make and post yourself,
so doesn’t matter if it’s really crap.

MP3s are just a clever way,
of stealing people’s songs,
which is why the record industry’s collapsed.

Wikipedia is a site where you could have looked all this up for yourself,
if you weren’t such a lazy git,
and Twitter is for messages that last a 140 characters or less,
and I’m the king of it.