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I love this comment on one of my posts about FB a few days ago... I found it today and I just need to share it even though I have no idea who wrote it. Here you go:

Just in order to sum up what you just portrayed - Facebook is a marketplace of (and for) human beings where we can market ourselves and judge over other people´s "value". This, of course is a very general viewpoint and there is a number of things that the network is good for (maintaining international contacts, sharing or marketing your music, art, literature etc). Yet, the aspect that should be taken into consideration when talking about it is that our constant need for being "social", "beautiful" and "as good as the next man (woman)", is the source of creating the feelings of hidden enquality among a lot of people (the friends in our friendlists) that are able to view the profiles and status updates. Most post updates about: their constant travels, fabolous relationships and family time, food, great number of friends etc...A lot of people can´t afford it (not just travels but food too), a lot of people are born into situations where they just simply do not have anything like that to present, a lot of us are generally more reserved and have difficulties with presenting themselves. Yet, they do see that the people that have the natural skills to do so and obviously, do so too, get more "likes" and people simply seem to like them more. So with all that being said, we ourselves are in control of creating the standard for beauty, the standard for intelligence, the standard for what being "open" really means. I´m not trying to forbid anybody to use Facebook, no...I just found your approach very actual at these times and via being a user myself (at some point, somewhat addicted...), I´ve witnessed way too much vanity and indiscretion on it. Sometimes, from people that in real life preach for the very opposite values...

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