Being on Facebook is like volunteering to receive spam, and the more successful you are at finding friends, the more spam you get! In the end, Facebook is really the emptiest, loneliest place on the whole World Wide Web. It’s all static and white noise, and the steady streams of status updates start to look like ASDF, ASDF, ASDF after a while.
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I’m just speculating here, but perhaps facebook feels like spam when you stop connecting with friends and instead connect with anyone. Receiving random messages from people you don’t know = spam. Receiving random messages from people you know = not spam.
