facebook has some useful functions, but it's main one is to satisfy people's insatiable appetite to show off and brag about things to each other. it's the same principle behind bmw and mercedes cars, expensive purses, huge houses. these objects, for the most part, serve not too much practical purpose, but are used as "showing off" tools. "bragging" in humans also satisfies the need and want to "put down" fellow humans, to establish that "i am better than you", "i have more friends than you", etc. it's really a crowd, high school mentality that serves to cure the inferiority complex that most people in america possess. they constantly have to prove to themselves that they are not "losers".
i personally conscientiously try not to show off, but have to confess that the urge is often there and i have to fight it
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