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Everyone I know who's left facebook - EVERYONE I know who's left facebook - has come crawling back. In most cases it's because they're tired of being left in the dark about events. So as to whether or not it leaves "holes in your life", I guess that depends how you feel about sitting alone at home while your friends are out skiing, watching movies, or catching a show.

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Yep, I've left Facebook several times and Event listings (and the list of who is attending) are always what drags me back.

But that's just a network effect - if those listings were elsewhere, I wouldn't need to return. Someone really needs to make an events app where identity is tied to Twitter / AppDotNet / Email instead. And while you're at it, connect to my Last.FM & Rdio so you can suggest/predict events for me based on my musical taste as well as my interests & friends network.

Well, in your new event app, you'll want to allow people to log in with their Facebook as well, to take advantage of the existing network effect. If you came up with a compelling feature or two, and could get Facebook people to prefer it for their event, it seems you would have a decent chance of traction. Monetization is left as an exercise for the reader.

Working on it. Drop me an email if you'd like to chat.

Honestly, I'm sure good friends can spare three minutes for a phone call.

If it's a group, and not just you and two buddies, people forget. They forget you aren't on Facebook, they can't find your number, they just forget to call.

Fair enough. I prefer it to be just me and two or three of my friends, so I haven't hit that issue. I find it just becomes less personal after that (although your experience may vary, of course)

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