It's odd to me that people make such a big deal about Facebook, relative to other platforms. When I log on to Facebook I see some old friends having pretty bana

It's odd to me that people make such a big deal about Facebook, relative to other platforms. When I log on to Facebook I see some old friends having pretty banal conversations. It's not very compelling and it's definitely not threatening. Twitter, on the other hand, is both compelling and threatening. It draws me in and sucks up far too much of my time. And when I've waded into controversial waters I've been met with hordes of strangers calling me names, making fun of my appearance, and even in one case emailing my employer in an effort to materially harm me for disagreeing on the internet. Nothing like that has ever happened to me on Facebook. Between Facebook and Twitter I find the latter both far more threatening and, because it's also actually compelling, far more difficult to leave. Facebook is a zero by comparison.