<p>^ comments like these are silly. Facebook is a very large part of the way people (mostly young people) interact. I’m not entirely sure why it is so popular, but it is. That probably isn’t changing any time soon. To decry it as mindless and a total waste of time is shortsighted and plainly not true. </p>
<p>Every time the means of communication are radically altered, there is always an older, more conservative group which claims that the change is for the worse and that it is somehow less pure and less worthy. You are doing it to Facebook, but people did it about the printing press, the writing of literature in common vernacular, rather than Latin, etc. In the end, I think we mostly agree that none of those things destroyed culture, or wholly corrupted the youth. Facebook is just the latest iteration, and like those changes, it is not a bad thing.</p>
<p>So, a better way to state your complaints would be " I personally do not understand the appeal of Facebook" or something along those lines. That way you would avoid insulting the millions of people who enjoy Facebook and are also productive members of the world.</p>