I normally don&#x27;t post in the social network threads; but I&#x27;ve seen this argument enough times that I have a bunch of questions I&#x27;m legitimately curious about, since I&#x27;m clearly not the target audience:
(For context, I tried facebook in college, found myself hating a lot of aspects about it despite heavy use, cut myself off by the end of college and have been &quot;clean&quot; for a good few years now.)<p>1. Why is facebook required?  (to get right to the point)  I know MANY of my friends use facebook but I still find it quite easy to keep in touch with them over email&#x2F;gchat&#x2F;texting&#x2F;in person.<p>2. Are many people you know actually going exclusively to facebook as their sole communication method?  This hasn&#x27;t meshed with my experience, but I&#x27;m in a very limited population strata.  As a followup, do these people find any difficulties when connecting with non-facebookers, since I know plenty of those?<p>3. Is it a conscious calculation for you&#x2F;most people you know?  e.g. is there even a thought of &quot;Am I happy with the tradeoffs at hand to use this&quot; or is it just the accepted dogma at this point.  I don&#x27;t mean to demean the group by suggesting that, I&#x27;ve certainly watched myself do the same in hindsight to other things (video games), but I do wonder if it&#x27;s at least being considered.