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by dba7dba 4540 days ago
I keep facebook only to keep in touch with friends (be able to send message or email once every year, in case they change it without letting me know).

I frankly don't like to read about what friends are doing because often, the friends are posting about happy moments/things/experiences. While I am very happy my friends are having good time/life, I ask myself, why am I NOT enjoying life as much as they are.

It's like as if people used to be envious of Hollywood stars in the past. People would read/watch about them and feel envy. Now that any facebook user can broadcast themselves, my friends are turning into mini-hollywood-stars.

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I probably keep a MySpace account somewhere. Not that I have logged on. They might have deleted me for all I know.

At what point does your Facebook account become more like my MySpace account, and, do you still count as a Facebook user when you get to the stage I am at with MySpace?

That is the problem with these statistics. The people that are dropping out of using Facebook to be rare/occasional users still count on the chart as much as the people who are on Facebook all day.