Hold on. First off, you should have deleted your account years ago.<p>"Connecting with friends" is a terrible point to make: e-mail has been around for decades. However, such a point does intersect with my main goal for making this post. People are lazy. Now programmers are saying it, and now everyone else will realize just how true it is, and being lazy has consequences.<p>So, we've had e-mail for decades. Why won't people use it? Instead of wasted texting plans, etc.? You could always keep up with your friends and family through e-mail. But the interfaces were either ugly, inconvenient, or disorganized. It's beyond me that an {interface} should have to tell me to contact my mother or that an {interface} should compel me to "keep up with old friends."<p>This. Is. Absurd.<p>[Luddite Rant:] Sorry, but pick up the damn phone and call them. (Or click "compose" and just {try} to type out something meaningful.)<p>I believe this finely leads into my next point: Not many of you have anything Gricean (<a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html</a>) to say. What [would] you say in an e-mail to a friend? --<p>People don't have much to say anyway (and for my personal stake in it, it's because they're not reading anything interesting), and Facebook isn't going to change that. That, I think, is the point behind <a href="http://weknowwhatyouredoing.com/" rel="nofollow">http://weknowwhatyouredoing.com/</a>. There's nothing-to-hide, and conversely, there's nothing-to-show either. FB is an enabler of oversharing, and it's allowing people to empty out too much without taking in substantive content.<p>I'm going to say it engenders bad cognitive hygiene.