Quote Originally Posted by limewave View Post
You know, I don't see how FB is that much different than TE forums.
Wider in casting your net to non-TE friends and narrower in letting you choose with whom you communicate.

As far as a time waster or less efficiency than a phone call, who ever had the time and money to print photographs and mail them to every single friend and family member who might like to know about your last vacation? I can post an album and provide some info on each picture for everyone to see and no one feels neglected because they weren't called first. For all the green-minded, the savings in paper, ink, and transportation of the photo graphs should be a winner.

And to take that "it's not about ME" approach to time a step further, it's also about group communication among a circle of friends. If you don't understand that benefit, why are you on TE?

If you want to call someone individually, do it. If you're more of a sharer of photos, news stories, petitions, links to interesting/funny videos, and like the resulting group conversation, FB is a great tool. Neither the phone nor written letters can do this.

Matter of fact, while my father isn't on FB, he is hard of hearing and neither of us is a phone-chatterer. We communicate far more by email than we ever have by phone, letter, or even in person when I was living at home. Would you still have me drive my horse and buggy 500 miles to visit him?