The Facebook Privacy Thread

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

My question is about whether Facebook has achieved some level of "importance." I always thought it was just another internet site full of the ramblings of people standing near you at the DMV.

And my answer was that, for many people it has. I'm sure there were lots of people that felt about the telephone the way you feel about facebook. And frivolous novelty. However, while there is no question that it contains an aspect of frivolity, it has grown rather quickly into a useful and ubiquitous tool for communication, a form of communication for which there is no easy substitute.