For anyone who does not know what Facebook is... what am I saying? Everyone knows what Facebook is. So when I log on to Facebook one of the many times a day i do, I see the new developments in my "friends'" lives.
While I have welcomed Facebook with open arms, and utilized the many REAL benefits of it such as reaching out to people to come to a fund raising event, or party or just to hang out. The truth remains that Facebook legitimizes the way human sexual behavior takes place. I am not going to go into detail about my personal life or anyone else's for that matter; however, when I see girls and guys constantly updating their profiles, pictures, or status's several times a day, it becomes somewhat of an advertisement for that person.
The key to advertisement is that if you say something enough, it starts to become true. This is true about 99.9% of things out there in life. I don't need a Snuggie, but because I've seen the commercial more than several times, it seems like an item I absolutely cannot live with out.
On Facebook, the same concept exists, except that it is about relationships. People are programmed to see and respond. If you are logging onto Facebook for 2 minutes 10 times a day (you know it's at the very least that), and you see the same 3 or 4 girls or guys in your news feed, they are now for sale in your mind and to everyone else who is seeing them.
These people may or may not be "bad" products, however, they are not necessarily "good" products, they are merely available. To relate this to the importance of sexconomics, these people are in large supply and thus cheap. The more pokes, comments, messages sent to them increases the demand and thus increases their value.
If and when the right amount of supply and demand is met, translating into "social equilibrium," we are all free to proceed to frolic.
