Is Facebook destroying meaningful conversation?

[SheilaT]

27. Well, this old person (63) finds Facebook to be

of limited usefulness. Both of those word are important, limited and useful.

It's useful when I haven't talked to either of my young adult sons in a while, and I can get a sense of what they might be up to. But limited in that I personally almost never post anything at all, and I'm crazed by all the random comments that so many seem to think need to be posted so frequently. I maybe take a look at FB a couple of times a week. If others want to live their lives on FB, so be it.

I do want to point out that the initial concept made a whole lot of sense for college students, and in many important ways those who are running FB have at least so far, not moved beyond a college mentality/way of looking at things. Adults out in the real world are appropriately wary of putting things there that younger kids think nothing of, and which all too often come back to haunt them.

In my youth I certainly did things that I would not want the whole world to know about years later, and because I did them long before the internet, there's not stuff out there to shadow me forever.