Social networks have very high value. They only have value that is voluntarily put into them. There are certainly young-ish people that for them, Facebook is

Social networks have very high value. They only have value that is voluntarily put into them. There are certainly young-ish people that for them, Facebook is their social world. On the flip side, there are certainly people who rarely visit it, and deleting their account is no more problematic than abandoning a random forum account. Personally, I'm falling into the second bucket as I get older. I like seeing updates for the people around me, but if I deleted my account I wouldn't miss it.