When you upload a photo to Facebook from your last trip to NYC, you get excited. The excitement doesn’t come from clicking the mouse or commenting “I love shopping in NYC” on your keyboard. It comes from the feeling that in a few minutes (or hours) you’ll get the acknowledgement that you’re alive. When you know that people will see your photo and acknowledge your existence you feel alive. When your friend writes a response comment like “Great photo, you look amazing!” you get the feedback you needed. The validation that you’re here.
People are like machines. They are an input-output device. When someone tells you you’re ugly than you’ll feel bad. When someone will hug you you’ll feel good (unless he smells bad). We live our day to day occurrences and react to them. That’s why we can’t feel alive without people (or other outer objects) telling us we’re alive. That’s what Mark Zukerberg and his fellow social services CEOs know. They realized that as long as they give you the feeling that you’re alive they will keep you their “friend”.
(via azspot)
