I have a different experience. I don't know a single person who used to send life updates with email, or engage in mailing lists. At least to this individual, it was very obvious why Facebook was going to be a success when it arrived, it had all the basic 'tools' you needed to communicate and stay in contact with family and friends.
So, you fall inside something and your body will be stretched and destroyed because of the gravity of the... something, something black hole, OR, you fall in and.. well, no one has a clue what we're talking about really :)