Facebook is a really strange and scary phenomenon. The idea was to keep in touch with those acquaintances you lost contact with for one reason or another. Yet,

Facebook is a really strange and scary phenomenon. The idea was to keep in touch with those acquaintances you lost contact with for one reason or another. Yet, it turned into a huge attention whoring platform because it slowly chipped away at any real-world interaction people ever had prior. So, what do you do when you do something cool or interesting? You let your Facebook "friends" know about it. It makes you feel better that someone read about the shit you did today. You feel like you're cool now. It's unbelievably sad what an immense psychological effect Facebook has on its users. I didn't even realize how addicted i was to Facebook until i closed my account and had frequent urges to reopen just to update my "friends" with something i did. Everyone on it is just feeding off of each other. It's a perpetual pat on the back that makes you feel cozy that you have 300 friends and hides the fact it's making you socially inept. It's been 4 months and i never looked back. Even had 2 of my close friends follow my lead. Get away from this shit and get your social interactions back.