> there are countless people who rely on Facebook to communicate
They can try e-mail, IM, SMS, picking up the telephone, smoke signals. Let's stop pretending Facebook is so ingrained in people's lives that they cannot live without it. We're talking about a website that's merely a time waster.
> a billion people log into Facebook every month
I'd bet that number is way off once you account for spam profiles and how Facebook defines 'active' [1]
Edit: to satisfy ghost downvoters (HN, go figure) here is previous discussion on the billion users