
I gave up on flame wars about the same time I left Compuserve ... 
I do FB only - I use it to keep up with friends, to get notifications from organizations I belong to, and as my primary news aggregator.
DH does Twitter only, and it's an ENORMOUS time suck to him. He justifies it because of the news feed - if anyone remembers CNN back when they first started in the 1980s, kind of like that, but obviously even less filtered - but then he gets into back and forths with newspaper editors, plays the Twitter games, etc., etc. ....
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler