[babyrainbow]

> social networking online...

Isn't this a manufactured problem/requirement?

EDIT: I mean, did people have this problem before social networks?

[hnarn]

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Surely you can't be suggesting that social interaction between human beings is a "manufactured" requirement?

[babyrainbow]

No. Social interaction between human beings has been going on well before these social networks.

The manufactured requirement is the need to reach to every person we ever know and share every little detail of your life with them, possibly multiple times a day, in return for their some kind of acknowledgement...

That is the manufactured need and that is what people are hooked on.