FOMO, or the Fear Of Missing Out, is by now a known phenomenon of social media usage. Since people who actively post to social media accounts tend to curate their posts in such a way to put them into the best light possible, they suggest their lifes consist entirely of good things.

Reality, of course, is rarely like that. No one is always happy and satisfied. It suggests to readers a way of life that is actually impossible to ever achieve. Even worse, your own attempts to imitate the Social Media Experienced Life leads to worse life quality for yourself: The problem with curated photos on social media. Our quest for the perfect online social media pretend life makes us unable to enjoy our actual lifes.

Of course, the problems with social media don't stop there. Facebook, in particular, has become behemoth with a giant userbase, enabling it to create a walled garden of epic proportions. As John Gruber points out , it has begun to kill the open web. Intentionally or not, by doing so Facebook tries to excert control over not only what people can read, but also what information they share – and who they can share it with. Feeding information exclusively to Facebook means you're excluding anyone who can't or doesn't want to have a Facebook account, and it is only in Facebook's best interest for you to do so. And since so many people already have a Facebook account, they never see how crappy the non-Facebook-Account experience is when stumbling accross a Facebook link: A giant pop up covering the entire screen, exhorting you to sign up for a Facebook account. Facebook treats non-Users like dirt.

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