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I don't have a facebook profile and I keep in touch with people with the exciting new technologies of email and telephone. Amazing what actually talking to peop

• alex_c 13y ago
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• TeMPOraL 13y ago
  I also use the exciting technologies of email and telephone, and talk to people. On top of that, I use Facebook to keep in touch with the remaining 90% of people I have weaker ties to, but once every half a year or sth. want to do some stuff together. One big value of Facebook is that it's a push system, not pull (and we know that push > pull). I can stay current with the life of hundreds of people I know without having to think much about it or check it manually. It scales better than e-mail/phone and allows different new ways to interact with people. And there's no reason not to use e-mail and phone along with using Facebook.
• sneak 13y ago
  As someone with the same email address for fifteen years, the same phone number for almost ten, and who deleted his facebook account five years ago, I can now say that facebook does it better. I made a new account this month and reconnected with people I haven't been in touch with for years. Not everyone is going to set up a mailing list you can subscribe to.