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For me, facebook is a good way to communicate and keep up to date with friends far away. I have old and new friends living in Australia to New York City to Madridand you chat with them and know what's news. A lot of far flung families communicate this way. One of the beauties of a forum like Net54 is people from all around the country post and communicate.

For those who don't use it, one's personal facebook account and what you post is not public-- unless you set it to be that way. What you post is visible only to those who you've added as friends . . . Also, a lot of people who sign up for facebook don't actively use it. So if you hear X amount of the world is on Facebook, that doesn't mean they are all using it. So you don't have to feel left out if you do want to.

Personally, if someone doesn't use or like facebook, that's fine by me and I wouldn't suggest or even think to myself that they are "missing something." Just as I don't think my neighbor's life is missing something because he doesn't belong to Net54. I've never used twitter and am not not sure how that works. I'm no computer techno fad xbox ipad killer app gps afficeonado geek at all, I just happen to use facebook.

If a non-facebook user derisively says, "If you want to talk to your friend in Madrid, why don't you just email him or call him on the phone," I would respond, "You can do it that way if you want. I never said you couldn't. If you prefer the email or telephone to facebook, great."

PS, an ad page for net54 on facebook I understand.