> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? For me, there isn't one, and enough negatives to FB that I don't use it. I have no trouble co

> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting? For me, there isn't one, and enough negatives to FB that I don't use it. I have no trouble connecting to people I care about via the many, many other methods available. Voice telephone is becoming unusable for me due to spam, but so far somehow, not text messaging. (I guess the spammers don't cross-polinate yet?) I run my own email server, calendars, image galleries, and other tools for collaborating, sharing, ego-stroking and whatnot. I do miss out on some random social interactions, but usually that's honestly a plus. Some relatives feed me the "email's too hard" line, and I take that to mean either I'm not or the message isn't important enough to bother, and that's fine[1]. At this point for me, FB is something I talk about more than I ever see - my view of the internet omits them (and several other surveillance shops), aside from the time between when they deploy a new splat of IP addresses and I notice and block them. IMHO, the internet is much better without them. [1] Of course there's backstory, too, but that's private, and not the sort of thing I'm going to discuss in public on a third-party server.