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Originally Posted by Dottore
FB is probably very much like the "Stijn" thread. I personally have never been interested in being involved in the minutae of other peoples lives to this degree, nor am I interested in sharing this level of detail about my own life. It's all so terribly banal it seems to me. (no disrespect to the "Stijners" intended here)
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It originates from the psychological "need" for human connection/interaction, as well as the need for new ideas and inspiration. (reference SNL's Stuart Smalley daily affirmation.)
Not a bad thing, necessarily, but it replaces weekend rituals with a minute-by-minute dependence upon electronic devices. A person becomes incomplete without their "x".
A product of today's two-earner stressed-out parents.
A psychological void in today's children.
A need to be filled by someone else.
These days, that "need' for constant social, human interaction is replaced by sentances and pictures transmitted by the global internet structure, and displayed on an individual's screen in the "privacy" of their comfort zone.
Facebook sought to manipulate these human interactions.
They underestimated inherent consumer resistance, and thought this could be replaced by advertising......... falsely originating from "friends".
This represents the core of human manipulation.