I use Facebook a lot. I like it, it is useful. Useful for keeping in touch with friends too distant to meet often; useful for finding out little things that I may have otherwise missed – a great concert over this last weekend, for example. Useful as simply another form of social interaction, that complements all the existing ones – telephone, email, face to face conversation of course.
Naturally, I tell people this and suggest that they have a look themselves. At which point something really odd often happens. A look of real concern crosses their faces and I hear:
“Oh, no I won’t use Facebook”
Or something similar. So what is it about Facebook that seems to inspire such a reaction, such an aversion, such fear.
I have no idea. But I then I wouldn’t: I like it. I’d like it even more though if more of my friends used it. For all of the reasons above. But they won’t, of course. And would I change them? – No, of course not, they’re my friends and I like them just the way the are.
