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Originally Posted by cool09
My FB page is blank with 1 friend who I know from the hospital. I have been very sick the last 20 years and I don't want to connect with anyone. I wasn't friends with these people in HS, I was very sick in HS and an outcast. I'm not scrutinizing anyone. I'm just taking them at face value.
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Well, there you go. There's
- Selection bias (if you don't judge your life "FB worthy," you don't post)
- The bias of only putting life's triumphs on FB
- The network effect in that posts carry more social value the more friends you have
- Simply getting lots of (or little) value out of the connections
There are a lot of reasons to inflate (or not even post) one's life's events.
I'll repeat: Facebook drives narcissistic behavior. It encourages it. The happy gets overblown, and everything else swept carefully and silently under the rug.
Anyway, you shouldn't use Facebook. They sell your data to all sorts of dirtbags.