Reply #20: The "poster upthread who ostensibly is complaining about FB" has something to say.

[CommonSensePLZ]

I'll respond to you and return to the issue of narcissism online in a second. First I want to say about Facebook, not Myspace, not Twitter, not any other site that is the Facebook is the only one I've used that KEEPS changing its privacy policy. I've used other sites that actually did keep their privacy policy for years, but with Facebook it changes like seasons. I also have never used a social networking site that actually took privacy BACK after it gave it to users, I don't know if there was good intention in how they made it mandatory to share your name, likes, photo, gender, network and friends, but they did it unilaterally and passed off a new, less private privacy policy like it was a great, strict new thing everyone could love. A few years ago it was actually stated that if you posted something on it would be stored, you couldn't even change, edit or modify your name without Facebook performing some kind of "verification" or "confirmation" that I still don't understand, and this is from a person who is 1. concerned about privacy, 2. took the assumption that with how overhyped Facebook was and how technical the site that a people must be happy with privacy and feel secure in their control over their information and 3. made the mistake of using his last name and after waiting more than 2 weeks for this "verification" to do through just said 'fuck it' and deleted the whole thing to return sometime later to find for a while that things had gotten better.

Oh, I'm just paranoid, right? No, there's certainly no phoniness or egotism online, it makes PERFECT sense to add hundreds and thousands of people you've never even met to your friendlist, because that's what friends are, total strangers, right? Hey, you like links, right? Only took a fraction of a second on Google.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/story?id=5887520&page=1
http://www.switched.com/2010/02/01/how-many-facebook-friends-do-we-have-for-real/
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/may/10/facebook-takes-narcissism-to-new-level/
http://www.livescience.com/culture/080926-facebook-narcissism.html
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/narcissists-easy-to-spot-on-facebookif-you-know-how.ars
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2044625/5_ways_to_spot_a_narcissist_from_their.html?cat=25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w <- I LOVE this one.

But frankly if you guys are so in love with Facebook that's good for you, go superpoke Mark Zuckerberg for all I care, but if you don't like the truth just stay on Facebook instead of insulting me. Facebook is a fad anyway, so get your kicks while you can.