Facebook and the Availability Heuristic

I'm pretty confident that at some point in every Facebook-users life they have been drawn into reading some irrelevant wall to wall conversation between two "friends" they barely know (only on Facebook, right?), or random people within their network.

Now, in the interest of cognitive economy we humans tend to use heuristics, or shortcuts, to quickly evaluate situations. I would argue one of the most dangerous heuristics we use on Facebook is the Availability heuristic, which is essentially the act of forming conclusions about a person, situation, event, etc. based on examples that are most readily available. Here's a fictional scenario:

Person A: yo last night was so crazy. so many kids were there. we gotta hang out more often. call me about tonight we gotta party again
Person B: yeah so nuts. you were out of control. haha so funny. ill def call you later

And a very special Winter break scenario:

Person A: oh man, i can't wait for you to come to _______ to visit me. its gonna be so sick. we're gonna party so hard.
Person B: yeah, i'm so excited. how are the ladies in _______. you better hook me up dude.

So what can we take away from these conversations. Well, these kids are pretty cool and fun. I mean, they party all the time, and are really sociable. While these are pretty ridiculous assertions based on such a short conversation, it's hard not to make some larger (positive) assumptions about these people. Initially I read these types of exchanges and think "wow, these people must have exhausted all other means of communication talking about their crazy exploits, the exploits spilled into Facebook for everyone to see."

The fact that I don't actually believe that statement has more to do with time of exposure than my own mental processes. However, when you quickly read wall posts (which you often do quickly and in high frequency), you rarely have time to develop a valid conclusion. Shortcuts are taken in the interest of time, a shocking occurrence that is making kids with high wall post counts look disproportionately cool.

The only solution to this problem is to start wall-posting about everything I do: "oh man great time at dinner. so crazy" or "can't believe you said that in the library haha". How cool will I look? I mean, if you didn't wall post your friend about it the next day, it never happened.