A new "Face"ytale

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A new "Face"ytale

 

There is much talk going on these days about Facebook (of course not as much as it goes inside it). Many high class articles in top magazines explain how and why it got so successful. One of the most accepted terms in Facebook success is Aha! Which is the attractant policy of Facebook which means you need to pose just certain amounts of Aha moments in your users before they are trapped. You sign up, see some friends and old classmates, find your interests, and these three "Aha" are sufficient for addiction.
However, I think there might be some deeper psychological reasons for such high number of users in Facebook, so I decided to go on asking what is the reason and get answers, and write my opinions.
One of the major reasons I see in Facebook attractiveness is sharing your thoughts. Before Facebook, you had to share very much more carefully. If you had any opinion or idea, expressing it might become the reason for others to ridicule or discredit you, but in Facebook, it is like this: you share an idea, you have no reason to refer to any reference, there are probably 100 other peoples on your network which are sharing their thoughts, so if you talk rubbish, it will pass unnoticed inside the whole homepage, and if it is indeed interesting, you'll get comments and likings and attention. Don't you think it makes you a little more self confidant and lowers the risk of expressing new ideas?
The other greatly suspicious thing is what I call the fairytale world policy. Users in Facebook just live as in a fairytale. We have so many friend who wish us happy birthday (after Facebook has asked you" today is x's birthday, don't you want to wish x happy birthday?"!!), like our ideas and comments, want to be friend with us, talk and share with us, tag our photos, suggest us books, and finally you are a 100 % lover, a very successful person, a great friend, an ingenious scientist, a supermiraculously hyper intelligent  terapositive being no matter what you answer in the polls and tests (please don't bother to open a dictionary cause they don't exist even in Heritage's dictionary for dummies). And all of these will make anyone think what a good place is the earth, what a great life I have, with so many people liking me and with such unique character that I posses.
It is very normal for any person to take refuge in this castle, and share his most intimate things with others, so I wish all users to think that after all the advantages it gives us, Facebook is managed by humans, and all of us have the same frailties...

 

by Arootin Gharibyan