Love it! I was in hysterics here. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.
I have noticed that many of your posts deal with some confusion about gender. I would encourage you to perhaps take some courses to educate yourself on some gender issues. Sometimes you might come across as misogynistic.
As I was saying, I understand someone was studying FaceBook, came to the conclusion that at least some come away feeling much WORSE about themselves, because they see how many “friends” others have, feel they are at some kind of disadvantage, take it very personally, can feel quite down, hurt, even depressed.I don’t see why it annoys you so much. They’re just ‘likes’. It’s not like you get a prize.
Woman generally are more active on social media. Doesn’t seem surprising to me.
Yes. If you google “facebook envy” and “facebook depression” and similar, you turn up all sorts of studies about how harmful facebook is to mental health.
I think that something was wrong with those people mentally before they got to facebook. Obviously, people who have social problems aren’t going to do well on a social networking site. That should go without saying.
Facebook doesn’t make me feel any of those negative things. Positive people see things in a positive light.
This caused a big problem for us when our son first got on Facebook. Every day he’d peek over my shoulder to see how many friends I had to make sure I still had less than he did, then make comments about the various ways in which his friends were better than mine. I ignored it at first, but it started to become something of an obsession for him. I told my wife I was going to teach him a lesson so I sent out a ton of Facebook invitations. I then started sending out friend requests to the personal accounts of every celebrity I could find (this was back before they all had fan pages). Before long I had quite a few more friends than he did, including a few minor celebrities who would occasionally interact with me. He finally got the message that there was no real value to having 5,000 friends on Facebook, or that having more virtual friends than someone was anything to be proud of.
Really? In my experience, the opposite has been true. My husband will post a picture of us and he will receive a huge amount of likes. I post something similar, and I have about half that number liking it. It doesn’t bother me. Honestly, if someone is seriously bothered by the small number of likes they are receiving, they need to take a break from Facebook and get out into the real world.I agree with the above statement, however, Facebook can be a double edged sword. Personally, I like it. I think unhappy people can log on to Facebook and see pictures of others out having a good time and think - “Why do I never have a fun night out like that?” or “Why wasn’t I invited?” or “My life is so boring”. A person with a positive mindset will think - “That looks like so much fun, glad you had a fun night, can’t wait to hear about it” or “I had a great night too, maybe next time we should combine our groups of friends” or they will know that this person rarely ever does anything notable and is just trying to make the most out of their one night out and create a false perception.
This is also my situation, although I am hardly what anyone would call young.
Also, women are better looking than men (IMHO). People like to comment on and like photos of good-looking people. My wife gets 100+ likes per post, and I get about 5. Yes, she is a lot better looking than I am.Facebook is **social **media.
Women are generally more **social **than are men.
Mystery solved.
Mystery further solved.I was already aware of the depression and have seen where people get addicted to computers, will be with someone, can’t get off their cell phone or computer to talk to the person right in front of them!