How Facebook Encourages Needy, Attention Seeking People

First off, let me preface this article with a statement.  I am not talking about any of my Facebook friends, I am not talking about anyone I know personally.  This is an article about things that I have noticed or observed about Facebook as a whole.  That being said, let's continue on.  Facebook's first objective when it began (besides Mark Zuckerberg wanting to find dirt on people and such as portrayed in the movie), was to connect people.  I have found this in particular a great tool because I have found many long lost friends.  Then as Facebook moved along and the years passed by it has morphed into this interesting thing of different categories. You have the people who just want to have as many friends as possible, it doesn't matter if they know them or not, filler friends as I like to call them.  Next, you have the preachy people that get on their soapbox about this or that.  You have the super political people who can also be a subcategory of the preachy people.  Then, you have the drama/complainers where every status is something wrong.  I didn't include the non-users or the only game players.  I could sit here and name categories all night long.  While the needy attention seeker can be included in the complainer category, it doesn't always have to be so.  People pass away, live catastrophes happen.  With the needy attention seeker though, they are always looking for either someone to feel sorry for them or someone to praise them for their accomplishments.  I'm not talking about the occasional post.  I'm saying that EVERY single post is something that is needing praise or comments with the word sorry in them.  There are people that will post if their friends sisters cousins cat had to be put down and it always says "please keep him/her in your thoughts".  Then come a slew of comments saying how sorry they are and that they will pray for you or what have you.  Again, and I know I shouldn't have to say this again, but I'm sure I will get a lot of messages from friends asking if I'm referring to them, I'm not!!!  The needy attention seeker always seeks praise after something traumatic because if you post too many sad posts you will look like a Debbie Downer or move into that complainer category.  Maybe a post will say "I ran a lap today!" or "I feel great!".  That is usually followed by a ton of praise.  I have definitely posted about some workouts I have had or if something great happens, but again, I'm talking about all day everyday as if Facebook dictates how they feel about themselves.  That might be why teenagers are more susceptible to Facebook hurting their feelings.  I remember being a teenage girl and life was rough!  Everything was the end of the world.  I cannot imagine what would happen if we had Facebook back then.  
I do want to touch on one more category that a lot of people are getting annoyed with and it's the shared story.  Not just your regular shared stories but the beggar ones.  Like this if you don't want a child to have cancer.  Of course no one wants a child to have cancer!  It guilts you into liking something that could potentially be a virus.  Share this and if I win the lottery I will split it with you.  How can anyone hold this obscure, probably made up, user to it if they win?  The picture usually manipulated as well.  Facebook started out as this amazing tool to be used to connect with people that you know and maybe you don't know (through groups of people who enjoyed the same things), then it became this beast of a thing for scams, advertisements, bullying, and a lot of nudity honestly (which I thought wasn't allowed but I have seen some shares of scandalous things).  
How can we bring this back, reign it back in to being the wonderful concept it was supposed to be in the first place?  I guess Facebook is what you make it and you'll just have to unfriend, block, or hide the people that keep showing you the things you don't want to see.