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FaceBook and Instagram do a great job of helping people showcase "make-believe" lives, and do very little to actually help people make "social" connections.

Exactly! The formula looks like this: Post How Cool I am = Likes = Dopamine is Raised = I have self esteem!

Because self esteem based on likes isn't worth the self esteem you'll get by actually knowing yourself .

facebook is actually not winning as far as growth....let me pull up google trends...

Agree. My point is that on FB people often share posts triggered by their willing to show off. I suspect Instagram as one of the main reasons for the diminishing popularity of FB.

facebook is actually not winning as far as growth....let me pull up google trends...