[Sven7]

I have just been reading the front page Reddit thread, where soldiers are talking about the pointlessness of the Afghan War (can't believe its been 14 years) and the difficulty of coming back home and dealing with first world problems.

And then I see this Facebook stuff at the top of all the tech news...sigh...how did we get here? I have no idea.

[hmate9]

Because everyone has a facebook and so everyone can be part of the conversation. Everyone feels involved in this. People want to be distracted. I'm not necessarily saying it's a good thing, only why dumb news is always more popular than "actual" news.

[darkstar999]

If you want to read about the Afghan war and things like that, tech news sites aren't the place. Of course tech news sites are full of Facebook news.