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It's not that great for deep personal conversations. But it is good for easily finding out whats going on in your friends and acquaintances lives. It keeps me connected to people I don't see a lot. It has usually been how I have found out about old classmates engagements and other major events.

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I keep only 22 friends, and treat Facebook like an almost-private journal. Deep personal conversations work if you use Facebook like that. It's up to the user.

Personally, I would never trust facebook with my deep personal conversations.

What're they going to do? Tell my future kids what their dad wrote online? Publish a collection of Swear Words Unalone Invented Talking To His Friends?

Maybe after World War 3 the new global government will search through the 25 year old database and exterminate all past and present believers of <some religion>.

(Yes, I know, plain text emails to hotmail/gmail recipients would probably be just as bad as plain text private messaging on facebook. Protecting privacy is so bothersome that my efforts are pretty token. But I do try... because I don't comprehend the ramifications of releasing so much information.)

I try and live life a bit happier, under the assumptions that most things won't go wrong and the things that do go wrong will be recoverable.

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