"I don't see how having hundreds or thousands of 'friends' is leading to any kind of substantive friendships .... The whole thing seems so weird to me. Now you really have to turn off your computer and just go out to live real life and make real connections with people that way. I don't think it's healthy." http://www.slate.com/id/2208678/

Neither true nor false. If you read further down, you discover that it really depends on the reasons "everyone else" uses Facebook. And one argument to which I can totally relate is the fact that for those people whose relatives live in other countries, it is an efficient way to keep in touch, while at the same time creating a network of "friends" allows you to expand social connections. And I think that its popularity has also to do with curiosity, it's human nature, most of us would like to know what our friends and their friends' friends are doing, no matter how wierd it might seem. If you're willing to give up a small part of your precious privacy, and even that as I read it in the article can be dealt with, it is an opportunity even for those introverts like me to become more extrovert, and not the other way round.It is to a certain extent virtual, but what's not virtual nowadays?

Ines

Once again... There should have been a third option. The statement is rather true, but there should be no "rathers" to vote...

I think it's easier to elicit verbal replies, though, if you narrow down the choices...

 Karlsson-on-the-roof once asked Miss Box: "Have you quit drinking rum for breakfast, yes or no?"

An article in French...

It doesn't! How could it?

The idea for me is to be able to communicate with my close family and a few people who were friends before Facebook.

No one but my eight friends, and that includes my family, can access my profile. And I don't accept 'gifts' from, nor do I play any games with any of them.  I mainly use Facebook for exchanging news and pictures of my children and grandchildren.

Nanna

That may be true, but since I prefer having options...I didn't vote

N.

<<Toutes ces infos que j'ai publiées sur moi, elles étaient pour les gens qui m'entourent.>>

Cf.: Blogger in France sues after being fired - USATODAY.com

Good luck!

Wasn't he a sage?