man ive come to firmly belive facebook is the devil, and everyone it his minnions, i hate it too, everyone is so full of shit. im down to just my friends i actually know on it now, and all of us right now life sucks for so now its even more depressing!

Oh keck yeah I know what you mean. However, I've found that people bs and exaggerate a little bit on FB. Don't compare yourself. You are a unique special individual. :)

exactly, facebook is a front

Yeah I hear that's kinda bad on facebook. I dont go on face book. I would get upset and depressed.

I don't pay attention to FB but I do make comparisons between my life and other peoples lives all day long and it makes me miserable.

I know what you mean. Facebook can be like that. I mostly joined to see my kids on facebook and then I play a game and that keeps me busy, having a nice friend can help. I don't think people talk about their true feelings there, they mainly just like to keep abreast of what is happening in their friend's life, they may play games, they do socialize if they have friends and they will tell what they are doing. Sometimes people don't have the problems we have to deal with. They are lucky.

I don't go on facebook coz I'm a bit of a private person and don't need every man and his dog knowing my stuff, and to me it seems to be 'gossip central'. Yeah, it has privacy, but its not as private as most people think. I also feel like its a 'look at me' tool for people who like attention, and yeah, I'll eat my hat if people don't pimp their profiles up to be a lot better than reality. But granted, its probably good for those well balanced people who have life juuuust right, and use it as it was probably meant to be used.

My life not being the perfect vision I set out with as a teenager, I don't feel the desire to 'show it' to everyone i've ever come across in life. If my life was better I'd probably be on it.

I was on a facebook for a very short span, and felt horrible. It felt to me like it was a contest as to who had the most friends and did the most stuff. Once I removed myself from it, I felt better - and the odd thing is, I actually do have a very active life! We travel, go to a lot of outings and events, spend lots of time with our fur-babies, etc. I could post photo after photo of all these fun things, but I don't understand the point. It felt like a competition - and I found myself thinking in Facebook terms while I was doing things rather than enjoying what I was doing. I started evaluating life in terms of what to post - to keep up with the Facebook joneses. It's superficial and is not an effective use of time. I would be on here any day of the week dealing with real feelings rather than looking at people showing off on Facebook. Keep in mind that despite my active life and all the things I could post on there - none of that deals with how I am feeling inside - any emotional holes in my life, loneliness, family issues, etc. If you looked at my life on Facebook, I'd be one of the people people would be envious of. But obviously, that's doesn't tell the real story, because I am here sharing with people on this board, to deal with feelings that could never be dealt with there. Facebook isn;t who I am, it;s just what I do. Keep that in mind as you look at it and try not to compare. There's always more to the story than meets the eye.

I would agree with most of the comments on here, facebook to me is a complete waste of times, if anything happens to mean important and i want to share i tell my friends in person, to me facebook is very much a social comparison website, were people like to promote themselves has having loads of friends, and why to people post photos of them on holidays as if we really give a shit. or them pissed out of their brains outside some pub.

I once thought Facebook was just a kid's thing, I mean its superficial nature makes its intent clear. But this is an increasingly superficial world. People practically Twitter every bowl movement. They are the stars of their own boring, monotonous soap opera. Friends and family probably know the important things taking place in their lives so why must they twitter every instant of daily life. Maybe it makes them feel like a star to twitter along side vile glutenous celebrities. If they could only realize how foolish it makes them look.

The funny thing too, one could create a completely fake life on FB, add lots of pics that ya found of pple and places, have many added friends, talk of all the great stuff in your life, and its all an internet dream. I'll bet there are more than a few like that on FB.