While I agree "the problem with Facebook is how people use it", that's kind of the point. People are so used to posting tons of minutia on it (and Facebook's ad

While I agree "the problem with Facebook is how people use it", that's kind of the point. People are so used to posting tons of minutia on it (and Facebook's ad model is incentivized to keep you aimlessly scrolling down the news feed for as long as possible), that it makes it difficult to just focus on important updates from people you care about. I find it so difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff in facebook, which is a problem I do not have in email (especially with GMail's tabbed interface that auto categorizes my mail).