1) I get positive feedback - once I did not post for a week or so and I got lots of e-mails wondering if I was okay and still alive.
2) I spent the last 12 years of my life being the picture taker and documenter of our life - there are a few pictures of me and the boys but it's mostly them. So so now I take every opportunity to document my own life.
3) ALL of my extended family lives elsewhere, I post, they read - we are somehow CONNECTED!
4) I have made friends all over the world and THIS is the way to keep track of them all. JUST what Mark Zuckerberg intended.
5) I see something I like, a place I want to go, a restaurant I'd like to try, an event, a conference, a good book, etc.. I get the link and post - no need to carry hand written notes or to enter it into the iPhone, go back to facebook and check. Also JUST what Mark Zuckerberg wants me to do.
6) I can showcase my kids and their happiness and my parents get to see it daily from Mexico
7) I get to interact with my young nephews and niece whenever I want to which has really made for a much closer relationship between us
8) I have a lot to say and people should hear it BUT hang on ........ here comes the BEST part, IF someone DOES not want to hear about you they DONT have to!!!! Off the news feed, off the friend list - problem solved!
9) On my wall I can say whatever I want, people may comment and if I don't like the comment I have the God-like power to DELETE IT!!!!!!!!
All of those are valid but in the end it may all come down to these last 4:
10) I am egocentric and I think the world revolves around me
11) I probably have OCD and thus a compulsive need to tell everyone what I do and where I am at all times
11) I also very likely have a mild touch of ADHD and thus mild but pervasive problems with self regulation
12) I have always been an overachiever?
Think about it, where in real life, can you just let loose all of your DSM-IV pathology? Delete what you dislike? Unfriend those who do not agree with you? Have the ones you love close? It is a truly intoxicating concept!! Who knew, in the end, Facebook, albeit virtual, is the true Utopia.
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