If you visit a site that has a "like" button even if you don´t click it, FB will record you as having visited.
I thought the stock debut was very shaky. There were all kinds of heavy dudes involved behind the scenes. If it was a GOP-centric stock there would havebeen investigations and charges I think.

It´s nothing but a data mining enterprise. It´s bad enough that google invades people´s privacy; I don´t need facebook doing that too.

Besides, most of my facebook friends are too busy to update me every second about their activities and constantly send me crap from Farmville and such. The ones who aren´t have no lives and annoy me.

I agree with MamaD (#53)!

Facebook is just another fad. Populr? Yes. But remember when MySpace was all the rage?

Lives of quiet desperation.

Like others here, I never really got excited about facebook. It´s not the same as sending a personal email to someone - seems too "public" to me. Anyway like other fads that become too popular too fast they don´t seem to last all that long.

My dog has a Facebook account, but he doesn´t have a clue how to post ANYTHING on it.
He even has a couple friends.
The problem is that his friends have way too many friends, and, somehow, someway, my dog gets to read all about them too. Fortunately, his reading skills are limited and so is his time.
He is thinking of killing his Facebook account (if he can figure out how), but his two friends are also dogs...and they know how to post pictures of themselves, which he likes to see.

I think Facebook is a good tool. Most of the negative stuff about it has to do with the people on it. I think it reflects life in many ways, and the things I don´t like have to do with the ways I feel our country is changing.

You have the same dangers as you do walking down the street in New York. But you can choose who you hang out with, where you go, what you say, etc.

I have found it valuable for efficiently keeping up with family and friends all over the world that I otherwise would not be able to. It would take a lot longer to do the same with phone calls and letters or visits.

Facebook and twitter have great commercial, educational and political application. Great for organizing and communicating. And Facebook for limited family sharing of photos, happenings is great if it doesn´t spin out of control. Beyond all that Facebook is a completely juvenile exploit of, ´´Hey, my life is far more interesting that your life. Eat your heart out.´´
As a culture, we´re thankfully outgrowing Facebook.

Family w/ security clearances to the moon prevent this throughout. Overall, a great kind of Stasi tool utilized by much the same currently running our own pathetic government. You have no idea how much is gathered about you, your family, friends. Not just shopping habits...that´s the least of your concerns. And it´s not just our government utilizing this. Sheeple and more sheeple.

I read through the first 62 of these comments and am puzzled that email was not mentioned once. I am not on Facebook and I don´t use Twitter. I communicate with family and friends via email, sending comments and web links and photos to those to whom they are relevant. This is much more like standard human communication than filling up a Facebook page which, I agree, seem to be a lot like those bragging Christmas letters.

Fakebook? Oh, that place. Don´t bother.

I never joined FB for the same reasons I lock my doors: privacy and security. (Of course I know both goals are technically a pipe dream, but why court invasions?)