Is Facebook a fad or a permanent fixture?

[Bridge]

I keep hoping that it's a fad that will fizz, but more and more it appears to have become a permanent part of our culture. I have an account on Twitter and one on Blogger, but for some reason I don't understand, I hate Facebook and refuse to have one.

[meep]

I agree. I got rid of my facebook two years ago and haven't looked back. At first I thought it was a fad but it doesn't seem to be going away.

Every time I meet someone they ask if they can add me on facebook and look at me like a freak when I say I don't have one.

Luckily, it's stock doesn't seem to be doing so well and most people I know who have one, rarely access it. Hopefully the economy will drive it out. Unfortunately, that also means a newer, worse fad might take its place.

[evjaovri]

I think ppl will switch to Twitter. Facebook is getting boring.

[John Ashtone]

Both.

It suits a certain type of person, so will remain a permanant fixture but one only used by certain types, I have a Facebook account (actually I have three, two fictional charcters created for a project that is on the back burner) and my current one as John Ashtone which is a nom de plume anyway, but my Ashtone one is too hard work, who gives a sh1t what I do during the day, so I just put occasional posts for my History book, which no one looks at even though the book is selling quite well lol.

And talking of hard work, Facebook will not allow John Ashtone to have johnashtone@gmail as an Email contact because my Email account is btinternet, and so it refuses to allow me to have my own email address as my Email address for contacts.

Apparently the man who has just made himself $billions thinks people use their real names?

Strange.