It is no surprise that Facebook is not good for the overall society and of course its the few bad apples of the “normal” functioning population.
The background of this story was inspired by a recent posts of a blog I follow, Once a Month 4 Ladies, I also opined on this post.
There has been studies dating in the last couple of years that using Facebook and having friends who post over glamorous content that is only a snapshot of ones life.
It is hard to try to distill all the drama from the childish adults on Facebook.
One of my pet peeves is how people have locked down their profile down to only “friends” who can see the content. I am not saying I am a creepy and Level 3 sex offender or a stalker, but if you are keeping things private, then should you even be putting promiscuous photos on the packetwaves called the Internet?
Especially when it’s someone who posts a scandalous default picture, then gets all creeped out from all the attention. Well if you build it, people come! It isn’t my fault that someone upstairs made you beautiful! Its not my fault that your father wasn’t doing his job of teaching you how to control your assets!
The rest of the story comes from some heavy personal opinions of being raised from a not so privileged family, and someone dealing with his disorder, of being younger and more neiave than his peers. I started to see the ins and outs of the social privileged world when I was just 21 or so. And coming to such realization really disturbed me, but it was always like that, and in every society there is privileged class.
What has driven me nuts is how people who use Facebook are required to use their “real name”. Facebook has said for a long time that society’s social norms believe if you use your real full name in the real world that it should extend to the virtual world.
Let me tell you some secrets, since I live near the county where Facebook was created. There are some certain locales where people’s egos go above their “full name”. In certain affluent areas like Hahhhvahhhd Yahhdd, or Westchester County, NY, people have certain levels of social class or status. And in these certain privileged social circles, referring to someone like Mark Zuckerberg for an example is proper social protocol to refer him by his full name, because it is the uppity way of addressing someone who has high levels of social privilege.
You’ll also notice in comments, especially on embedded websites like Weather.com, where people will reply to users by their full name. If there is only one Stephanie*   in the thread, some people will refer you unwillingly as “Stephanie Brickenelli*”. Again my theory of uppity and ultra classy socialization is in my opinion just wrong.
*using a random and fictitious name
Since Facebook went live first in Harvard and later to a few other Ivy League colleges (oh, I mean University), it would explain my logic about the uppity class of “full name”. Sure MySpace or Live Journal was a screenname based system, Facebook was trying to eliminate the screen name because allegedly you could be anyone behind a screenname.
Well Catfish has clearly debunked that myth, and the worst offense is people are fibbing behind the real-name sites like Facebook!
So in these real-name social networks, people may be posting things under their real given name, but the issue is how they over focus on the positive! Their lives under their real-name are so rosey, the truth kinda gets a little twisted. And sadly, some people get caught into the over positive, that it causes people to avoid contacting them  (and my own Facebook account was over negative.)
Unlike other people, I don’t fault Facebook. It isn’t the medium, it is the message. It is the people who post things under their legal identity and they hold no accountability; from the scandalous photos to just making their lives comparable to a Cambridge, Massachusetts or Cambridge England of a socially privileged class.
However, if Facebook should deserve such criticism, Facebook opened an offline world of uppity social class and virtualized it and made everyone both online and offline a socially entitled brat, and that’s the sad truth about the [social] world that revolves around Facebook.