Are people that use Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, ect. insecure?

[Adrian]

Note: I never use any social networking sites. I am a VERY confident, friendly, and popular person.

Communicating is fine (such as chat for school purposes or organizing meetings) ,but why do people post things that they do throughout the day? (ex. LOL im at yogurtland!!! OMGee I just saw the cutest boy evarrr!!!)

I mean, are people that insecure that they need to gain recognition to feel good about themselves? Almost everyone these days do this.

What happened to the normal youth? I can see that everyone is starting to lose their people skills ,and beginning to lock themselves in their room and go on the computer all day.

P.S. I'm 15 years old.
Some of the things that you people said made no sense. How could being lazy relate to yahoo answers. Being glued to your computer waiting to hear a response (I know ironic), COULD mean that you are insecure.

Also I'm not "fooling" anyone. So please just honest, BS free answers.

Thanks.

[CaseyB]

Implying that 15 year olds are confident and that their opinions matter.

People use those sites to stay in contact with friends, why are you sippin hateraide?

[Bear]

I enjoy using facebook and such for communicating. I don't agree with the status' though, I would agree those that do that are insecure about something.

[deanyourfriendinky]

Judging people as "insecure" because they use some online service is like saying that people who ask questions on Yahoo! Answers are lazy.

Lumping millions of people into some category based on a personal opinion is megalomaniacal.

[☆Misha☆]

lol

Don't fool yourself, kid

[KeiraJasmin]

I'm 13, I meet new people on new sites almost everyday. Why do I use facebook? 1st reason: A site I used to be on shut down and 4 of my best friends (who i don't actually know in real life) were on it, how else do I communicate with them? Add them on facebook! But why do I use facebook? It's not because I'm "insecure" it's because I'm homeschooled and have no other way to contact my old friends from my old school, old memberships from places, and when the site all your online friends are on shut down, what would you do? I spend most of my life at home because of homeschooling, but I'm not on the computer until around 8PM. However, I do use facebook mobile. And what's really a better way to talk to friends when you can't sleep at 12AM and can't call their house? Now why does everyone post what their doing, you ask? That's bassically what facebook is for. It's like a bigger more addicting version of Twitter. Now I don't see many post that their eating or anything but if one of your friends are on their way to a football game and you wanted to go, wouldn't you enjoy them posting "heading to the (town name) football game!"? pluse what's a better way to waste spare time when you can't come up with anything to do but sit in a chair or lay on a couch?

[DSTA]

How did MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter ever get started? It was the idea of people always having the want and need to be connected constantly throughout their day. Social Networking is all about telling where you are, who is hot, and so forth. Do we really need this in our lives? I think it seriously adds more stress if anything. If somebody doesn't respond back to your message what do you think? You think "Oh did I say something?" or "Did they take this the wrong way?" And for those of you who love Social Networking, that's great. Enjoy yourself. How did people in the 20th century enjoy themselves without Social Networking? Do you think they sat around bored at home? No, they went out and hung out with their REAL friends. Then, they would come home, eat, and go to bed. They weren't constantly connected as we are now days. And I seriously think they were much happier kids back then, then we are now. Basically my point is we should all get out more and cut back from looking at the computer screen for hours. By the way, I had a MySpace account that I created three years ago, but I thought it was a complete waste of time. I haven't gone on it since.

[Bob Marcans]

Maybe there are some but I am not totally agree with your answer. But I love to use facebook just to have contact with my friends. Facebook is huge community go make one and finf out how it works instead of making that nonsense. you cannot truly understand one thing if you don't haven't try it. All you've got is a simple views of what is really happening in Facebook.

[enacra101]

Some people just hapen to have alot of friends honestly... doesn't mean their insecure.
I don't have all that many on FB because I limit it to close friends and family but I know some people with hundreds of friends and they surely know every last one of them. It all depends on the person, some people are insecure and want status, some people genuinely are just really liked and have a lot of friends