Facebook? what exactly is the purpose of it?

So every few years or so a new social network comes about, and is the new trend that everyone has to have to see what the big deal is about,right? Dirst we had Myspace("A place for friends"), made a big fuss over who was on our top 8, what polls to fill out, what pictures to put up, who to have on our webpages, what color, what graphic to have on our profiles, it was the best thing, none of us had seen anything like it, at least in my case, it was a whole new world for me. After Myspace started to die out, Facebook came out, I am not even sure which came first, this is all from my personal experience. So now we all threw out Myspace, and Facebook has overtook our lives, whether we like to admit it or not, it is everyone's favorite kid. It's the first thing you check when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you put down before you sleep, right or wrong? And nothing is wrong with having an obsession, Facebook isn't a bad thing, it can be depending on what you use it for. In my personal view, it's a great place to reconnect with old friends, who would've ever kept in touch with a classmate they went to school with in third grade? It's a great feeling reminiscing and reconnecting with great people who left an impact in your life whether you realized it or not. How else would people remember your birthday? Let's hope the only reason your dad remembers your birthday is because Facebook reminded him. Anyway, today I was in a rut, I wasn't feeling so great about myself, and a dear friend of mine gave me a wake up call, and not only made me feel like my problems were insignificant, but not really problems compared to what's going on in the world around us. Sometimes we get so warped in our own worlds, our own problems, we forget we are just one person, one small person in a very huge world. There are people around the world who have no shoes, we cry about having not enough shoes, what about those who cry because they have no feet? I cry because I haven't finished my college degree, what about those that don't have the ability to even study elementary school? My friend pointed out that we don't know how lucky we are. We spend more time complaining than we do being grateful, and that needs to stop. Everyone has good days and bad days, but that doesn't mean it will last forever. How would you know how great something is if you didn't have something bad to compare it to.