In my case, I don&#x27;t feel it&#x27;s the Internet in general.  I think it&#x27;s Facebook that puts me in a funk.  Oh, and I steer away from Reddit, if not feeling great.  That said, I think I&#x27;m a lot older than most you you guys.  I&#x27;ll honesty give the reasons why I find FB depressing:<p>I don&#x27;t have a lot of friends.  I find people so self-aware on FB, I don&#x27;t find them interesting.  People, I used to find interesting, edgy, true individuals seemed to turn into just boring, conformists.  Nothing wrong with boring, and conformity? I think it just all  reminds me of my own mortality?<p>I also learned--I&#x27;m not the person I thought I was when on FB. Meaning--I&#x27;m more critical when I&#x27;m on that site, than in real life.  Example--I go to someone&#x27;s site I used to know, and see the physical age in their pictures, and it&#x27;s just depressing.  I see how some have given into being their parents, and it&#x27;s just depressing.  I see the see the car I was suspose to inherit being trashed by my nephew, I get depressed on a lot of levels.  I also see that people aren&#x27;t breaking down my doors looking for me--as a friend, I get depressed.  I look at the news feed, and what FB thinks I&#x27;m interested in, I get depressed.  I see that that the one person I thought would not have over 1000 friends, is actively trying to friend my pseudonym profile, I get depressed.  She doesn&#x27;t even know the most depressed civil war soldier&#x27;s name, and she wants to friend him.  (In the civil war, a soldier was showing signs of melancholy.  A doctor decided to call his condition depression.  I use that soldier&#x27;s name on a FB account.)<p>I see my pictures have been stolen, and I get depressed.  I see my stolen pictures, with a new copyright, and I get depressed.  I always deactivate my account when leaving FB.
When FB, monkeys around with the deactivation process, I get depressed.<p>So FB does make me depressed some days.  Maybe, it&#x27;s just too much reality?  Are we suspose to know exactly what almost everyone is doing, or not doing?  What age has done?  What lack of opportunities&#x2F;money did to some peoples lives?<p>I don&#x27;t hate FB, but think it needs some real competition.  Right now, it&#x27;s just too big.  Its tentacles are integrated in too many websites.  It&#x27;s become its own internet?  It&#x27;s just to much posing, trout mouth, Kardashian, narcissism for some days.  Today is that day for me.