Facebook is like being at a party where everyone is really attractive and sociable, but where everyone at the party feels ill-equipped to join in the festivities.
Thus, the individuals posture themselves as supremely accomplished, loquacious, involved animals, but no one's ready to be anything more than a spectator.
Case in point:
Your parents ask,
How's Ashley from high school? She was always such a nice girl.
You say,
Oh, Ashley's in Germany for graduate school right now.
Your parents say,
Oh, did you talk to her recently? Does she still play volleyball?
And you reply,
No, I just noticed that on her Facebook page.
So what's the goal here? To grow human beings as information-gatherers who never let that information drive them to personal interaction or confrontation? If you're someone who frets social situations, this encourages you to keep harvesting, keep harvesting, keep harvesting until you've SOLVED HUMAN COMMUNICATION and can actually talk to another human being. The problem? All communication, and life, is imperfect, and there's no algorithm for conversation or personality.
So if you're inclined to experiment in 2015, get off Facebook. If you find your social life and self-esteem shattered, then maybe it's a requisite for existence, for breathing air and uttering sentences.
If not, look who's talking! My guess is, you and your real friends.
