Facebook socialization

Liking/reacting: Acknowledgement.
Liking and then promptly "unliking": Ambivalence.
Commenting: Social engagement.
Messaging: Friendship.
Poking: A tepid sexual advance, not invested enough to comment with boner emoticons on all of someone's profile pics.

Facebook: The Musical

Sometimes when I see a flame war in a comment thread, I imagine the participants dramatically singing their comments at each other--typos and all--in an epic called "Facebook: The Musical." (And yes, I also think this about arguments I've been involved in.)

The psychology of food pictures

Now, I'm not knocking or judging people who like to share photos of everything they ingest. Posting food photos is your legal right as a citizen of Facebook, seeing as the Declaration of Internetdependence grants us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of indefinite "likes." So if you want to show everyone what you're eating, go right ahead. But I have to admit that I don't quite understand the motivation. When we share photos of our meals, is it in memorium of the food? Is it due to the desire for a communal meal with all of our friends and followers? Is it to make others jealous and/or hungry? Is it to offer people ideas for what they, too, can consume? I have posted a picture of a bottle of mead, and it was because I know a lot of people who have never heard of mead and I want to spread the word (or image) so they can experience its incredible majestic deliciousness themselves. I haven't grasped the overall reasons behind this practice, though.

Also, maybe taking pictures of what we're eating is sort of like a Level 2 Selfie. A selfie is "This is my face," while a food pic is "...And this is what goes INTO my face!" It's like a selfie, but more in depth.