A bit of extra data extrapolation to further the reasoning behind my anti-Facebook position (because upon reading my post I can see how you would make these conclusions):
The 25 combined "Tagged You In A Post", "Commented On Your Link" and "Wrote Something On Your Wall" Facebook interactions were ALL Meme-related. "Brian likes Star Trek, I will tag him in this picture of the new Star Trek poster along with 27 other people I know". "Brian likes Comic Books so I will post this picture of Superman to his wall and then tag 27 other people in the post". "For some weird rason, this link that Brian posted 3 weeks ago is at the top of my News Feed, I better make a comment on it".
The 8 "Personal Messages" were mostly from Alex Weller, with two of them being from my Mom trying to figure out why her TV was broken. Alex joined LJ, my Mom is still kind of clueless about how technologies in her life are connected :)
So what I'm taking away from this experiment (this far) is that I'm really not missing anything by not being on Facebook, and I'm regaining a good hour-and-a-half of free time that I used to devote to scrolling through pages and pages of Memes in hopes that somebody had said something *real* on Facebook.
aurora77 commnted (below) in the way I'll probably use Facebook from here on out.
But thank you for the opinion! Thank you for taking the time to type it out! Perfectly legit and reasonable based on the information you were presented :)
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The 25 combined "Tagged You In A Post", "Commented On Your Link" and "Wrote Something On Your Wall" Facebook interactions were ALL Meme-related. "Brian likes Star Trek, I will tag him in this picture of the new Star Trek poster along with 27 other people I know". "Brian likes Comic Books so I will post this picture of Superman to his wall and then tag 27 other people in the post". "For some weird rason, this link that Brian posted 3 weeks ago is at the top of my News Feed, I better make a comment on it".
The 8 "Personal Messages" were mostly from Alex Weller, with two of them being from my Mom trying to figure out why her TV was broken. Alex joined LJ, my Mom is still kind of clueless about how technologies in her life are connected :)
So what I'm taking away from this experiment (this far) is that I'm really not missing anything by not being on Facebook, and I'm regaining a good hour-and-a-half of free time that I used to devote to scrolling through pages and pages of Memes in hopes that somebody had said something *real* on Facebook.
But thank you for the opinion! Thank you for taking the time to type it out! Perfectly legit and reasonable based on the information you were presented :)