The Facebook community is a fickle old thing.
So-called friends who ignore your posts, ‘overlook’ replying
to your PM’s but yet spend more time visiting your profile page than you do.
The fraternity-like game of ‘let’s manipulate your popularity’
can make or break someone’s self esteem and their very will to survive.
Playing out like a daily soap opera, Facebook is a moving,
living human circus where one dimensional characters are elaborately created, fantasies
exhausted and their best sides photographed.
A backdrop that on one day can be the most fantastic source
of support can rapidly switch into a modern day
bear pit. Threats exchanged, people alienated, confidences broken and what was
originally assumed to be an intimate platform for expressing individual frustrations
and personal opinions lays the stage for the ultimate
downfall.
All this and yet on average, only 10% of members on a typical friends
list will actually comment or like one of their friends status updates.
That to me says two things about the other 90%:
a) They aren’t big lovers of technology.
Or
b) They aren't big lovers of their Facebook ‘friends’.
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