For my circle of non-tech friends.. Facebook has replaced email and IM. That's pretty big.

And photosharing. And gossip magazines.

And sharing location ("I'm having beer at the pub. Come and join me")

Oh, and they use it for little things like product recommendations ("I need a new washing machine. what do people like?")

And then there's the whole "how do I fix my computer/car/whatever". Lots of people don't Google for it - they just ask on Facebook and wait for the original poster to Google it and reply to them

But yeah.. apart from these things it's pretty useless really.

Oddly enough, all of the things that you mentioned are useless to me.

Oddly enough, all of the things that he mentioned are crucial to 90%[1] of people aged 18-25[2].

[1] a slightly-educated guess

[2] and many others as well, obviously

[1] Wishful thinking? [2] Fickle user group.

I've rarely seen anyone ask for recommendations/questions on facebook. The few times that I have no one answers.

Seems to me facebook is just a bunch of people screaming for attention and collecting "friends" like baseball cards. Useless.

I've noticed in the last year or so that facebook doesn't work anymore for me. I'd txt a few days after sending a party invite on facebook and people'd be like, what invite? I think facebook got filled with too much noise.

I agree, I need to search between 200 notifications about quizzes, games, etc etc and I miss "important" things about my friends. That's sad because I want to know what my friends are doing or what they did, not if they have reached level X in farmville or what's their "Photo of the day".

Friend Lists and hiding Applications basically removes this pain completely. Block every crap application that appears in the field (takes about 3 seconds) and now I don't see any of that shit.

To be fair, before you used Google, you likely thought you could live without totally fine.

Perhaps if all your contacts, relationships, events, etc were already on Facebook, you might think you couldn't live without it.