I don't know about you, but I find Facebook an extremely efficient way of keeping up to date with my family and organising events with them. Certainly beats lon

I don't know about you, but I find Facebook an extremely efficient way of keeping up to date with my family and organising events with them. Certainly beats long email threads trying to work out Christmas plans or group trips. Facebook is a social network, and that's what it's good at, if only for the reason that everyone is on it so there's none of the friction involved in getting people to use some other tool.