Honestly, I use Facebook to see photos and contact folks from HS I haven't seen in 20 years. The tweet-like "news" from friends and family is horrible banal and dull. If you get Facebook -- and I'm not saying you should or shouldn't -- just check it every other day or so.
When I graduated from high school, there wasn't e-mail and online communities and whatnot, so keeping up with folks was a lot harder. Besides that, I grew up in a city that almost everyone left as quickly as possible, so a lot of the folks I'd be interested in keeping up with disappeared.
Facebook has let me actually catch back up with people who basically vanished oh, 13 years ago.
I really like facebook, I think it's great. And, I'm mostly joking here, but most of the complaints I've seen here, that the Twitter-like update feeds are "banal", doesn't that say more about the people you've chosen to friend and get updates from than facebook itself? ;)
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Date: 2009-07-27 06:08 pm (UTC)Facebook has let me actually catch back up with people who basically vanished oh, 13 years ago.
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