Facebook

Why is that blue-toolbarred website so damn addicting?
The little icon of a house (Home), the "Home", "Profile", "Friends", "Inbox" links, the search bar, the profile picture, the Wall, the "Mutual Friends" box, "Info" "Boxes" and "Notes" tabs...WHY DO WE USE AND LOVE AND ABUSE IT?


I think I know why.


Facebook is the tool through which we get linked to people's lives. And a link from them to ours. People have a desire to be noticed, to be seen, to be heard.

People want witnesses to their lives. What a waste it would be to go unnoticed, unconnected, unheard from. And because we as humans have gone too far past the stage where it was ok to have one, two, ten people as witnesses to our lives, Facebook gives us 457 more witnesses to our small, minuscule, uneventful lives. Facebook allows us to share pictures other people might not otherwise see, tag friends in notes they'd otherwise not read, and write "hellos" on walls of people who we'd otherwise never keep in touch with.

Everyone wants to be seen, to be noticed, to be liked, to be wanted.

Facebook feeds that need.

And that's why we use it - addictingly, obligingly, habitually, daily...