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The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

> The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

I'm wrong?

No I'm an individual with my own preferences. Each to their own. I wasn't telling anyone else to leave. I was just describing my experiences.

I kind of had the same thought the person you are responding to had. You switch from "I" to "you" in your last paragraph, which seemed to imply that you were using your experience to declare how things are for others. I found myself nodding while reading the prior paragraphs, as I have similar experiences, but disagreeing with your last paragraph as it clearly wasn't true for many others. It's somewhat true for me now, but I joined Facebook because my mother was quite (terminally) ill, and it was a perfect medium to share with her but not place any particular burden for her to write emails or respond. And I'm the 'you' in the context of your message.

Thanks Roger. I hadn't realised that you could read it in that way. I was talking about myself, but it wasn't clear.

Feeling connected no matter how small is a very strong force. I like that I have connections from my childhood to my present and to all the places I lived. Even if it is I see that my friends kids are now in high school or that someone had a great event that I had zero impact on them having.

When my son was dying from cancer I just had to jump on Facebook and I had a ton of people that were willing to help out or send him messages and videos. It was a great tool to find people who could help.

I'm sorry about your son.

That is awful. I don't want to imagine one of my children being seriously or terminally ill. I'm glad Facebook was able to help you and your son in that horrible situation.

Thank you for sharing your alternative viewpoint.

Facebook would like to thank you for giving them the opportunity to monetize your son's cancer.

Isn't that 1.5 billion accounts? How many are bots, fake, duplicates, or otherwise not representing exactly 1 person?

how many of those are no longer active?

  936 million daily active users on average for March 2015
  1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 31, 2015

https://newsroom.fb.com/Company-Info/

Guess that means I'm wrong too about reality tv, Justin Bieber, fast food and the importance of cars as a status symbol.

Oh, and let's not forget the believe in the existence of an omnipotent deity.

(S)he's on the wrong side of history.

If you actually think that you might want to look up what that actually means.

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