<p>It’s the same kind of rumor like when people said the USPS was going to start charging people to use e-mail.</p>
<p>LOL thats hilarious xD</p>
<p>[Facebook</a> Tests Charging $1 to Send Some Messages - WSJ.com](<a href=“Facebook Tests Charging $1 to Send Some Messages - WSJ”>Facebook Tests Charging $1 to Send Some Messages - WSJ)</p>
<p>Not entirely false.</p>
<p>sernitysmiles, there are all kinds of reasons to message people who are not your FB friends. It’s just like emailing people. When people don’t have profile photos of themselves, you can message them to see if they are the person you are looking for especially if they have a common name.</p>
<p>I don’t believe FB is trying to protect us from spammers. FB does their own spamming when they put in “suggestions” to your newsfeed.</p>
<p>The part that is really annoying is that any message that is put in your other folder you will not be notified about only those in the regular message folder. </p>
<p>So how often are you supposed to check a folder that doesn’t let you know something is there?</p>
<p>Facebook is dead to me. Seriously, kids quit it a year ago. As others have pointed out they moved to twitter and instagram.</p>
<p>I’m tired of Facebook and almost all social media networking - all that ‘connecting’ gives me anxiety. Twitter is still likable as it allows for greater anonymity. I prefer all my social interactions to be face-to-face.</p>
<p>Parent here who never had a fb acct. Back in the day, I saw it as more of a kid’s realm and didn’t want to butt in; later just didn’t need another time-suck in my life. Over the past few years I think usage has grown among adults in their thirties all the way up to grandparents and has in fact declined among teens–at least that’s what our family has observed. </p>
<p>After my DD (now 18) became fb friends with her grandmothers, aunts, etc, it became something else to her entirely–probably a good thing as it kept her well aware that the content she chose to post was going to a very public forum. She uses b sporadically now, mostly for groups. These days she’s much more active on tumblr.</p>
<p>I have just 2 friends on FB – my daughter who is off to college and the gentleman who established the FB for parents at her college. The “Chat” function is great – easy interface with daughter. Oh, I prefer having just these two friends. </p>
<p>Am I missing something by not accepting tons of friends?</p>
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<p>I’m bored of facebook. I hardly ever get on it anymore. It’s all about Instagram and Twitter now!! :)</p>
<p>I’m one of the few of the current generation (I’m almost 20) who will never get into Twitter. God, it’s a breeding ground for grammatical incorrectness… Not even 100% sure what Instagram is and let’s not even mention Tumblr and all of those other offshoots. Plus, blogging. The heck is blogging?</p>
<p>I’m still OK with Facebook. Less annoying, younger people and more older people. I can now talk to aunts, uncles, and older cousins who I rarely get to see. Sure, the occasional phone call doesn’t hurt, but it’s still a decent tool for communication. Plus, I can do things like talk to my old residence hall floor by putting everyone in the same group.</p>
<p>Figure I’ll be completely done with it in 2-3 years, though.</p>
<p>I’m 22 and despise twitter. And instagram. They both bug me to no end.</p>
<p>i never got on the FaceBook bandwagon, despite the fact that I sometimes felt like I was missing out. But the number of problems and arguments that arise because of FB --even among older people–make me glad to be uninvolved. I don’t need to know every little thing people are doing and I certainly don’t want to know about the times I’ve been slighted or uninvited. Too many women I know suffer from various forms of FB envy.</p>
<p>I had an account long before my daughter and my son is not interested at all. DD doesn’t use it much. I still enjoy FB and I like that I can keep up with college pals and friends & family across the country. </p>
<p>FB is especially handy when something is happening in my community. We live in a rural area that is geographically challenging at times. So if a road is icy or closed, if there’s an accident or something occurs at a local school, it’ll be on FB in a flash.</p>