I know I can read a book, but then I’m up and checking Facebook. Facebook is amazing because it feels like you’re doing something and you’re not doing anything. It’s the absence of doing something, but you feel gratified anyway.

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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction (via azspot)

This phenomenon is, of course, not unique to Facebook but the nothingness alluded to in this quote certainly does seem to characterize it.