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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nearly 30 pages and the best explanation for why people feel the need to post photos of private gatherings to Facebook is “I use it to store and organize my photos.”

Hmmm.[/quote]

I would like to hear a better explanation for why people post anything at all.[/quote]

Because you want others to see it. Period. You can organize your photos on your own phone/camera roll. People are being disingenuous when they say “I only post to update family!” or “I use Facebook to organize my photos!” Nah because y’all don’t share everything. You share what you want others to see. Therefore, if you post a date, party, gathering, event- you wanted people to see it. And if you choose to let that be seen by people you didn’t include, you wanted them to see that too. [/quote]

This.

Some people post with the obvious intention of making others jealous or envious. Like it’s transparent. “Look at my new car, look at my new house, here I am with my friends dressed in cute clothes at at a concert, here’s all the people who came to my birthday party.” The reason to post like this if is you want people to see it and think “oh wow, her life is so great.”

The problem is that in your mind, people are thinking “oh wow, I’m so jealous, but she’s so great— she deserves it.” And maybe your mom or you closest friends are thinking that. But plenty of people will just roll their eyes and call you self-absorbed behind your back, and even though they are saying it out of jealousy, they aren’t wrong. Others will just be hurt you didn’t include them. The vast majority of people will not be happy for you, even if they have the social skills to pretend they are. People aren’t really focused on your happiness enough to want to see lots of evidence of it on Facebook. Plus there’s that nagging problem of how happy you could possibly be if you are taking the time to post all the evidence on social media. Wouldn’t a truly happy person just not bother because they are too content to need to tell everyone else how happy they are?

This fantasy of sharing all your best moments on Facebook and having everyone, or even a majority of your contacts, be just thrilled for you is childish. That’s not how people are. [/quote]

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