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Wow! I feel my stance on this has just been dramatically confirmed. Some years ago, I wrote a rant ( http://everything2.com/title/Facebook+destroys+real+relation... ) for the purpose of having a fixed thing to send people who would ask me why I'm not on Facebook. I got tired of explaining it over and over, so I wrote this. I got both positive and negative responses to it, and they fit a very definite pattern. The positive responses were always short and in the line of "this is exactly how I feel about this, glad I'm not alone". The negative responses were variations of "you've never tried it, so you can't possibly know what it's like", with optional "take your uninformed opinion elsewhere".

Now, Steve, as someone who has actually used the site for a nontrivial amount of time, writes a post bringing up mostly the same points. That feels nice.