[bittercynic]

Wow, I hadn't considered it that way. Thank you for broadening my perspective on the matter. This puts services like Facebook in a much more positive light than the way I'd considered before.

I haven't seen "This is 40", but I personally know many poor people who drive very fancy new cars and spend on extravagant things, while simultaneously being overwhelmed by stress from lack of money. I haven't figured out how to understand that yet, but these are intelligent, rational people, who make monetary decisions that are impossible (so far) for me to understand.