[ryandrake]

Amazing how my little one-liner has blown up into this huge thread full of people attacking and defending Facebook. My only point (which I still stand by) is that Facebook is a web site. It's not food or water. You don't need it to survive. You don't need it to have a social life. Some people choose to use it to help facilitate communication with friends and family and whatnot, but if it went away tomorrow, they'd just use other means to do the same thing. It's totally replaceable, and the idea that it is some essential human need and that people just can't possibly not use it is ridiculous.