> What's the big deal about facebook? And what did we ever do before? Facebook has solved two standing problems for my social groups. Your friends and acquain

> What's the big deal about facebook? And what did we ever do before? Facebook has solved two standing problems for my social groups. Your friends and acquaintances may be using it similarly, without you knowing it. Or maybe not. 1. Easy and effective photo sharing. It's easy to upload pictures and tag the people in them. If someone uploads a photo with you in it, you will get notified. The end effect of this is that everyone at events, outings, and parties gets copies of the photos taken there. What did we do before? For many of my social groups, nothing. Those photos were not shared. For two of my social groups, we set up dedicated sites for sharing our photos. 2. Event planning. The events interface works as well as any other I've seen. And if everyone is already on Facebook, it's not as annoying as evite or some third party site where people don't have accounts. I had a friend that refused to get a Facebook account for years and we always had to call or email him separately from the rest of the group. This created more work for the event organizer (which was perceived as somewhat rude) and messed up the attendee counts, because he wasn't in the RSVP numbers from the Facebook event. What did we do before? Played telephone tag and sent group emails. This works fine for smaller events with just a few people, but it doesn't scale past about 5 or 6 people. It also doesn't work in the tell-your-friends-to-invite-their-friends scenario where you still want RSVPs from everyone.