"We’re all characters in search of an audience. Without one, our experiences seem not to matter, or even not to have happened - which may be why we spend most of our time at important events texting and taking photos. In updating our Facebook profiles, we pretend to be satisfying an audience eager for news. […] This may be why my most eccentric friends abstain from Facebook altogether. What they fear is not exposure buy anonymity - the way Facebook obliterates distinctions between people, reducing their passions to hobbies and turning their happiness into the beaches and monuments, parties and pets common to us all. They’re afraid to be just another face in the wall."

Johnny Thakkar in “The Withering of Narcissus: Playing Tyrant on the Internet” for The Point (via britticisms)