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Speak for yourself, i know loads of people who use it to keep in touch with family and friends and posting updates every once in a while.

There’s a lot of stuff wrong with FB but it’s fundamentally a useful thing where there’s no great alternative (being vaguely aware of what not-so-close acquaintances are doing)



> a useful thing where there’s no great alternative (being vaguely aware of what not-so-close acquaintances are doing)

It has also basically eaten Craigslist where I live (Baltimore)

My wife and I were not Facebook users five years ago, but our neighborhood organizations are on Facebook, and so are the best places to find secondhand stuff. So we're Facebook users.




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