Question: Is our ever-expanding obsession with Facebook a good thing?

So I read somewhere that more people are spending more time on Facebook and other similar sites than at porn sites. Interesting. This is a change in behavior.

Apparently we are interested in telling our friends/audience what we are doing, how we are feeling, and why, every five minutes. And we seem to enjoy reading about our friends’ every sigh and comment, too.

As someone who formerly mocked Facebook and wrote a scathing essay on its lack of merit, I have to conquer with the above-mentioned information.

NO, I wasn’t looking at porn before, and even I were, that’s none of your business, or rather, everyone’s, since everything on the web is public.

(Sending a personal, even encrypted note to someone? Don’t make it something you’ll be embarrassed about later, because it’s all traceable.)

What I am saying is that even someone who mocks Facebook, like myself, is now using it EVERY day. I check to see what my friends/audience are doing, and to tell them what I am doing. It’s a little scary.

I can feel the narcissism growing like a weed. It’s getting downright wanktastic on my Facebook page, and I don’t even have any pictures. Some people pretty much have their whole life out on display on their pages, and it seems as though it’s a cheap and easy way to socialize, as least virtually. Everyone can see my everything and I don’t even have to leave the house! It’s like show and tell, every day.

What does this say for the future of our social skills?

Personal presentation? Boatloads. Actual interaction? Not so much. Are we too busy telling everyone who we are to see who they are? Or is it more like the whole reality TV thing—everything is out there, and thank you for looking? Please come again.

Ultimately I think we’re all just enjoying starring in our own shows. And if there are people we like watching, we’re happy. And if they’re not, we can watch them. We’re all voyeurs when it comes right down to it.

And porn is just a skanky form of voyeurism.

So maybe we’ve evolved. We’re now looking a little more on the insides of people as opposed to their outsides.

Could this be progress?