Everyday after school before I start my homework I like to visit a series of recreational websites. My first stop is always facebook.com and I check my e-mail, Then depending on the day I will visit websites such as failblog.org and fmylife.com. But my question is why do americans, including myself, enjoy reading about others mistakes and misfortunes?
All of the posts on these websites are meant to be funny and it almost becomes a competition for who has the worst life, a game I think we are all familiar with. When younger it was always a competition with my friends for who had the least amount of sleep the night before, or who was the hungriest. A conversation such as:
Person#1: "Oh man I am soo tired, I had so much homework last night and only got like five hours of sleep last night!"
Person"2: "Yeah that sucks, I had a lot of homework too but I only got like three hours of sleep."
Person#3: "Well I only got 2 1/2, I can barely stay awake."
But in reality why would anyone want to be tired or hungry? The same applies to this website, why would anyone want to post their misfortunes on websites in a hope to have to worst and most outrageous day? I guess my question has more to do with why people post these things, than why do people read them.
