Spoiler Alert

When is okay to talk about spoilers? How much time needs to pass after a movie or TV show comes out before the ending becomes public information?

There are many awesome things that one can do because of the luxury of having acces to the internet, but with great power comes great responsibility, right? Facebook is a perfect example of this.

The other day, there was a lot of unhappiness spread around my little world because of one innocent little Facebook status update from one of my friends.

In reference to the TV show, Lost, the status update read as follows (with names removed for those who missed it):
"_______ just capped ______, woooohooooo!"

This update was posted just mere minutes after the show had aired on TV that night. Thus began the wave of unhappiness:

1:30am: My cousin - a Lost fan who missed the episode - accidentally reads the statement and goes berserk.

1:31am: While sleeping in bed I hear a pounding at my door. I open it just to have my cousin warn me with angry eyes not to go onto Facebook until we watched the episode. I am upset that I lost sleep that night.

7:45am: Because of my lack of sleep I walk into work and yell at my co-worker about not finishing something that I asked her to do for me. She gets upset and storms off to her cubile.

2:00pm: I hear that said co-worker had gone off on someone else in a different department.

5:00pm: As I walked out of work, I wondered how far the yelling went.

So yeah, my cousin and I ended up watching that episode of Lost half-filled with excitement, while the other half was filled with anticipation of waiting for X person to 'cap' the other X person.

In the end, I guess that the moral of the story is that if you don't want other people to start yelling at each other and unleash havoc into the world, don't announce spoilers on the internet for the world to see.

By the way, Vader is Luke's father.