> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? An email conversation thread (in say, Gmail) is a poor man's version of a Facebook post. You

> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? An email conversation thread (in say, Gmail) is a poor man's version of a Facebook post. You can add more people to the thread, but they have to look at this poorly formatted "quoted" history of the email to get context of what's going on. Contrast this with a FB Post where you can just tag someone and they see the post in exactly the same format as you see it. No weird formatting. You can create "subthreads" inside FB posts by replying to a comment in a post. This doesn't exist in an email conversation. FB Posts have a URL - you can link to them. This mode of communication does not exist in email. FB Groups are a much more powerful version of email lists. They can contain events, people can mark themselves as "interested" or "going to" events - share these events with friends. Do you use FB?