It's just another popularity contest at a time when many teens are feeling more pressure from peers and the "me-first" culture. For me, Facebook isn't so much depressing as it is a waste of time, which is a shame, because it started out with some usefulness (see below for more on that).

Reading all of the trivial things my so-called friends and extended family were up to used to seem cute. But more recently the Facebook and Twitter culture has pushed these people to post what they're doing or thinking or photographing 10 times a day. It's as though they're in some kind of competition of the absurd.

Another new report with a long title, "" postulates that narcissism is rampant on social media sites. Flagler College psychology professor Meghan Saculla and Western Kentucky University psychology professor W. Pitt Derryberry observed how 279 students used social media.

The researchers observed how the students used popular social networking sites, and then they followed up with surveys to determine the students' self-perceptions. Not surprisingly, students who used social media sites to promote themselves tended to come off as narcissistic, and they self-identified as .