‘My guess is that most Facebook users are airhead women who exchange cat pictures with their friends.’
exactly so, though I must admit to being a tabbyphile, and like all pictures of cats...but yes, fuzzythinking women dominate FB, and are extremely vocal and jugdgmental, leading to what I call ‘Facebook nation’, where an echo chamber of ‘correct thought’ predominates, and hatreds and contentions are fostered where they don’t need to be...
I think you gave about the best summary of Facebook that I've ever heard. Characterizing it as an echo chamber is perfect.
My family and neighbors and everyone seems so wrapped up in it. I love kitties too, and *everyday* my family shows me the kitty pictures on their FB. LOL. I know more than I ever care to know or feel comfortable with knowing about the private lives of other people, not to mention everything about their kitty cats, dogs, and tweety birds. Yikes.
What irks me is the people who have time to post to FB but can't make it to the voting booth on election day. I live in Trump country, and everyone here adores our President. However a lot of the FB fans in my immediate family were to busy or lazy to vote. Arrrgh!