Why is facebook so popular? Why does it receive all the credit like if it was the best invention?

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Well google have come up with google+ to compete with facebook so there will be more competition soon and many more new social networking sites are bound to come as our technology gets better.

Trouble is, facebook has become so popular that it has made it not such a good thing anymore, criminals use it to know when their "friends" are on holiday so they can steal without risk of being caught, parties have been crashed by hundreds because people make public events for their friends and it becomes out of control, stalkers use it to keep check on the person they obsess over and many hours of life are wasted on it because it has become a genuine addiction since is appeals to our nature of wanting to know what is happening.