Facebook observations.
...to steal a line: where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
It's a place where everyone is happy, where everyone looks a bit better than they do in real life, where the children are perfect intelligent angels, where all marriages and relationships are perfect. It is like Stepford wives (and the male equivalent) in exquisite, minute detail.
And every once in a while, a ray of darkness and despair emanates. What the hell? Who are you to freaking disrupt my sunshine?
One thing FB generally is not, is materialistic. You would have to go out of your way, somewhat, to reveal your income, and for the most part, people seem not to go there, at least in my experience to date.
FB is a chance to get to know some people you may not have known well, or kept in touch with. It's also the chance to wish you hadn't bothered.
Probably the worst thing about FB is the way it challenges your memory. As in, lets you know your memory is now liquified crap. We all know what we know. FB lets us know what we no longer know. It's our stories told by others, because only they remember.
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