I don't understand what you're trying to say. Surely you can't be suggesting that social interaction between human beings is a "manufactured" requirement?
No. Social interaction between human beings has been going on well before these social networks.
The manufactured requirement is the need to reach to every person we ever know and share every little detail of your life with them, possibly multiple times a day, in return for their some kind of acknowledgement...
That is the manufactured need and that is what people are hooked on.
Social interaction between human beings was also severely limited for most of human history as soon as geographical distance was introduced. You don't have to look further back than the massive emigrations to the US from Europe, it completely shattered extended families. The need to communicate with the people you love is not "manufactured", what's always been missing is a well working and easy to use solution for it online. Facebook solves a problem, I don't even see a controversy in that statement. If they didn't, people wouldn't use it.
> The need to communicate with the people you love is not "manufactured"...
Again, the need is not manufactured. But the need for constantly in touch, is manufactured. No one before social network wanted that. There was normal mails, then we had telephones, emails etc etc..all of which have solved this pretty well, even across the globe.
