Whoops, I deleted my comment thinking it was pointless, but glad there's some agreement. Here's what I posted for the record: My oh my, now that was hostile.

Whoops, I deleted my comment thinking it was pointless, but glad there's some agreement. Here's what I posted for the record: My oh my, now that was hostile. I'm not a facebook fan, and I tend to agree with a lot of the arguments against it, but I think the OP was pointing out a crucial component of this dynamic: Facebook can be a total amplifier to your insecurities if you let it. I know Facebook makes me insecure, despite not being so in my 'real' day-to-day life, so I don't use it unless I need to get a hold of somebody. I don't like staring at snippets of acquaintances' idealized/polished versions of themselves because it makes me question my own path, but I find it to be too much of a chore to tweak and adjust my feed/settings to try and eliminate that feeling; especially when the benefit I'd gain isn't gonna outweigh the time I'd lose (for me). So what do I do? I step away from it, but I'm honest with myself about why I did that. There isn't much about Facebook that's obviously or inherently bad (privacy concerns aside for a minute), but I think that has more to do with how new such networking effects are to society. Are such social networks really healthy to our psyche long term? Who knows, but that may be what we're seeing symptoms of here. OP's right that it seems it's because of insecurities that people don't like Facebook. What isn't so clear, is whether or not that amplifying effect it can have is healthy for some people. I think some people thrive on it and others just don't, so the problem is probably trying to argue that either side is 'right'.