The Nature of FACEBOOk

The nature of Facebook is controversial. It attracts masses of people that comment word vomit blurbs of nonsense information to get attention. The only real purpose for a facebook is to either 1) Attract attention to your portfolio and make professional connections or 2) gain self centered attention on your page to boost self esteem. During a debate about the purpose of a seemingly self centered site, people heartily argued against the idea that they are only on the site to compete for attention. There have been many times that my husband and I have talked about how the "questions game" that facebook passes around that are intended to create drama between networks of friends on the site.

The game goes as follows, answer questions about your friends from really bad to moderately easy to answer, the worse the question the more points you get for answering it. Once you achieve 50 or 25 you get to a certain level and get to unlock a question that one of your friends answered about you. = creation of drama. Then after the public outburst because it has been posted on your page that you unlocked a question AND/OR you got angry about it and posted something back, others have their opportunity to post in response. Which creates a real live tv show where its interactive, visual, and engaging.