Back in 2005 (? sometime around then) I was in my university’s play. The stage manager wanted to use this nifty new thing to share notes instead of a bulletin board and email lists. So we all had to join Facebook, which at the time was college-only. I hated it then, I hate it now.
But my entire extended family uses it, and that’s how everyone shares pics and information. I have it set up to email me when someone mentions or tags me or invites me to another damned birthday party, and then I go on & look. The husband uses it regularly for business and personal life; he’s a social creature & self-employed so he has to use the platform his clients are on, and he’s OK with trading some privacy and data-sucking for convenience and self-promotion ability. No one uses his web page, just his FB page.
I’m still a phone & text person - I love the idea of texting a question and getting an answer without having to call & have conversations - but I do have long conversations with friends and family occasionally. I’m out of the loop with everyone and everything else, and that’s OK with me.
