"sending mail, making phone calls, sending text messages, or using the Internet" The difference between these things and Facebook is that the latter is a tool

"sending mail, making phone calls, sending text messages, or using the Internet" The difference between these things and Facebook is that the latter is a tool of convenience. The others (with the exception of texting) are matters of necessity to contact people. Could a person go completely without post mail, cell phones or email? Sure if they choose to live completely off the grid and live off the fat of the land (like my father does). Could they go without if they plan on keeping in touch with people? Not without a couple hundred homing pigeons. But Facebook is just a convenient tool that centralizes a lot of those services; and like I said I understand the point of business (make a buck) but I think Facebook can find a way that doesn't destroy user satisfaction.