Social networking sites such as Facebook are, whether you like it or not, or abstain from using, like yours truly, are undeniably here to stay. And are hardly a fad. But, and it's a big one, the 'bad' can all at once wipe out any of the good qualities associated with the services.
I don't elect to stay away from Facebook to impress anyone, but more because I am more than aware of the 'bad'; like this...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/facebook-users-risk-blackmail-privacy-czar-warns/article1545444/
... One benefit of signing up with Facebook, as a friend of mine has reminded me, is that you can find people from the past that you knew but lost touch with. This is actually a big reason why I have never signed-up with FB: Just in the last year alone, for example, I have found and re-established contact with three people who I went to school with, not by using a SN site, but simply by 'Googling' their names. It was too easy, in fact. Amazing. And it 'cost' me nothing. And spared me from revealing the fact that I like wearing pink shoes, including high-heels, and my favourite band is Suns of Vortoxic.
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