I expect the negative impacts are even worse for the female mind that is more attuned to other people’s opinions than the male mind.

Most assuredly. Women seek validation for their life choices through Facebook, Instagram, and their equivalents in other areas. Far too many of them try to validate their AWFUL life choices through attention from thirsty men. Without it, they wither and die. I’ve seen it happen all too often, and it’s terrible to watch.

A man can go into the woods and be alone for days and weeks without too many problems – though it takes a special type of man, and probably not a very healthy one, to shun all company for such long periods. A woman, on the other hand, would be driven nearly insane by such an effort.

If you don’t meet up with someone in real life, or at a minimum call them up and talk to them with your voice, they aren’t your “friend.” They’re a pen pal.

Correct. I never did quite understand the point of making all of those “friends” through Facebook. It’s the same with LinkedIn, as well – the actual utility of that tool is quite small, it just provides a platform for people to signal their virtue and make random connections that don’t mean a damned thing in real life.

Also, most people either don’t realize, or intentionally fail to understand, that whatever you’re seeing on Facebook is carefully curated to generate the reaction that the user wants out of people, and is in no way representative of what their actual day-to-day life is really life.

Well exactly. Instagram is even worse in this regard. Case in point: not too long ago I was in the company of a lovely lady, and we happened to come across a beautiful gold Lamborghini Huracan Spyder parked by a fancy hotel. The owner had imprinted his Instaham handle on the window. My fair companion naturally insisted on taking lots of pictures with it, which was fine and dandy. But we then went and looked up that chap’s Instaham handle, and of course, we discovered that the guy in question lives a picture-perfect life at one of the fanciest addresses in the city, and owns several serious performance cars.

Is he actually successful? Does he actually have any real skills in life? Or is he merely a crypto-millionaire, or a trust-fund baby? We don’t know. And both of us agreed that he certainly didn’t look mature enough to be someone capable of creating that kind of wealth through hard work and real effort.

You’d never know that by his Instaham page, of course. And that’s the point.

I actually didn’t notice it until you pointed it out – admittedly I was in a bit of a hurry putting it all together, but now that I see it, you’re right. She’s HOT, but the tattoo ruins her in a lot of ways.

Such a small thing ruins so much… it’s like that old saying about how a drop of wine in mud does nothing to the mud, but a drop of mud in wine ruins the wine.

Getting off Facebook is a bigger step towards healthy living than losing weight, lifting weights, or ceasing smoking. The number of brain cycles squandered on this repeat high school sandbox is appalling.

Like Mr. Univac, I am glad I got out years ago and my wife suspended her account last week.

The carefully curated content trap is real, even before progressive tumblrinats inside Facebook get started on it.
The reliably funny Ryan George nails the algorithm problem in this sketch:
https://youtu.be/x1aZEz8BQiU

I expect the negative impacts are even worse for the female mind that is more attuned to other people’s opinions than the male mind.

Also, most people either don’t realize, or intentionally fail to understand, that whatever you’re seeing on Facebook is carefully curated to generate the reaction that the user wants out of people, and is in no way representative of what their actual day-to-day life is really life. MrsUNIVAC in particular had a really hard time with that.