I don't use FB, but the overwhelming "temperature check" from friends who do jibs with your assessment. In general people are saying they get far fewer genuine

I don't use FB, but the overwhelming "temperature check" from friends who do jibs with your assessment. In general people are saying they get far fewer genuine "friend-to-friend" updates, and more "news in my bubble", "come to my event" etc type updates. Almost to the point where they wonder if their (real, actual) friends divorced / got depressed / decide secretly de-friend them (only to eventually find out that "No, I just don't really have time to post all my shit all the time anymore.") So it may not be "dying" per se -- but does appear to be slowly transitioning from a "stay-in-touch-with-friends" service to a YANA-type ("yet another noisy aggregator") service / thingamajig. That is, the same transitional state that all of its (smaller-scale) predecessors (Digg, FriendFeed, Myspace) wallowed in for so many years before meeting their inevitable fate.