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The Psychology of Facebook Examined
jg21 writes "In this analysis of the psychology of Facebook, a British FB user makes some telling points about how simple the reasons behind its success are. Among them, fear of 'online social failure' features prominently. From the article: 'Facebook also digs away at the insecurities in people...your peers can see your profile on Facebook, and while they may have 50, 100, 200 friends they will mockingly see that you have a pathetically small number, confirming your worst fears about the low opinion they have probably held of you over all those years etc.'"
I read your comment.. But I didn't heed your warning, and now I also want the last 10 minutes of my life back.
Anyone who didn't already know that the entire point of youtube, facebook, myspace and other social networking sites is to cater to self-involved, narcissistic, attention-whores with low self-esteem obviously has had their head buried in the sand. It's a nonstop stream of idiots posting bulletins about every single thought they have or thing they do, putting up idiotic pictures to get attention and putting up long retarded videos from their bedrooms where they blather on about how hard life is or shake their ass to some brainless music so that a bunch of middle aged men will pay attention to them.
The fee for admission to social networking sites should be sterilization.