I'm finding the Facebook thing more and more interesting.  Not Facebook itself, but the Facebook thing. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is that it's the first tech related thing that my kids use regularly and have kept using even after "old people" started using it in droves.  Of course the fact that old people use it in droves also makes it interesting.

Personally I love Facebook because it's allowed me to reconnect with all kinds of people that I actually want to reconnect with and haven't seen in real life in decades.  Literally.  Of course there have been a few who have contacted me who I wish would have stayed un-reconnected but that's a very small minority.  My wife, who is much more cautious than I am, has resisted the Facebook light because she fears it will be a giant time suck.  She's right of course, but in my mind that's no reason to stay away.  Productivity is way over rated.

And of course the reason people leave Facebook is equally fascinating to me as the reasons that people use it.  Being stalked by a wacko from the gym?  By all means kill your Facebook account.  Actually, I think Fec has come up with the single best reason I've seen for killing a Facebook account:

I killed my Facebook account when I found all my old girlfriends had become lesbians, not that there’s anything wrong with that