Social Networking & The Hitcher: Failing to Maintain a Proper Social Network Could Get Your Throat Slashed

So I'm sitting here in my apartment having just finished watching The Hitcher. It's your typical slasher movie (meaning that it sucked) but, and forgive me for sounding cliche, I just started thinking about Social Networking (hah.. please). The movie takes place in New Mexico and needless to say, two young people fight for their life while fending off a crazy Sean Bean. About three-quarters of the way thorough the movie the killer gets caught. But -- and GET THIS! -- he breaks free of his cuffs and kills the cops transporting him. While people are being stabbed, shot, or burned to death it struck me that if there were a better social network in place to back up those cops then they would have lived. They were traveling down a deserted road in the middle of the desert. Just like hermits or people on the periphery, they did not have the social network in place to effectively use, say, the information broker who would have told the cops (and Hollywood execs) that shooting the guy in the head is the only way to go. Forget about Miranda and the BoR, that dude had to go down.

Anyway, another thought just struck me: if people were doing that whole peer-news reporter thing then people would have known about this crazed killer. I don't know what people think of this but this is just a perfect example of how we need more Social Networking in life. If not to help save people from crazed hitchers on the roads then to let the movie producers know that movies about a killer murdering motorists was already done by the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and we all know how we feel about copycats. And don't even get me started on Vacancy...