Facebook

hi all, just wondering on a few things that i thought could be related to social psych, and also to the phenomenon of facebook. Firstly, with addictiveness, living on ressies in particular has shown me how addictive the games on facebook are and how competitive people have become. It made me wonder about how students justify that one quick game of tetris or pacman in order to try and better a friends score and how this one quick game over the course of the day turns into often ten games. Sometimes these fights are used as a self-imposed reward, for example after doing 30 mins work, other times as a relaxation or that once the game is done then inspiration and therefore they will be more productive.
This competitive nature has more recently spilt over into such applications as fighters club where imaginary fights take place with the winner with the most support and the most 'street cred', all this is pretty minor but what is interesting is the impact of these everyday fights on a person's mood and behaviour, with the outcome often taken personally and making people think that they are a lesser person.
So will this competitive nature continue into other activities in people's lives, such as uni work, sporting events or driving. Is this competitive nature always a bad thing or is it necessary for continued evolution within society. How do we know when it has crossed over from just friendly competiveness to actual harm to ourselves or to others.
Anyway just wondering what your thoughts were on competion in general and in facebook in relation to competition :)