Do you think the use of facebook has damaged your real life or common interest friendships?

[Lex]

I really don't understand how this facebook critique has come about. For me it's been really useful, makes keeping in touch really easy. long distance relatives often comment on statuses and photos, people with which i'd otherwise have next to no contact. i meet friends of friends through facebook, and some of them become my friends. I see a lot of funny statuses and posts that lift my mood a little sometimes, some from old school friends, and sometimes i comment on one and they say something back. It's all gravy. I like it.