“Seven reasons why I made a Thanksgiving resolution to leave it.”
Most of this crap doesn’t bother me, because I don’t really “use” Facebook much. My blog posts get auto-posted there, but I could count the number of times I’ve manually updated my timeline (if indeed I can recall them, which I can’t) on one hand. I guess that for many less tech literate, Facebook became a substitute for a blog, but I’ve never needed one. And I find Twitter much more useful as a link mine.
For many people it works quite well as a social-connection platform. People keep in touch, or get back in touch with old friends & family. A friend of mind contacted his kids for the first time in years through Facebook. It seems to work well as a quick & dirty base for political and other types of groups to organize around.
I found the linked article to be quite narcissistic. It’s nice the author ‘fessed up to that, but it vitiates the rest of the article. Reading the shallow reflections of a 20s “writer” is less than fascinating.
Hardly get on the silly thing any more myself, but that’s laziness as much as anything else.