Aware there was some time that was posted but whatever, I hardly frequent enough to see everything that goes on. Blow me.
Facebook is overrated. I have never once understood that site's appeal. The same applies to MySpace.
The appeal with social media is to stay in touch with people you give a shit about, or things you give a shit about. Talking out of the non-sheep aspect, here. Its pretty much forums of the modern day if you think about it.
Back in the days before social media boomed to fuck, people just hung around private forums(like this, cult-soft, sonic cult, insert whatever other forum you want to think of) with the simple purpose of finding people that share the same interest as you, or finding information about those interests. Then as time goes(like here, and cult-soft) additional features were added to enhance the experience for the people frequenting. See the arcade, and the flash games there? There you go. Just like how games on FB are. Same shit, different package. Only that its way more collected so rather than typing in a bunch of different urls/usernames for each forum you have an interest in(and also all the horrid settings each and every of them might have), everything is in one and same place, thus, its simply "Facebook".
To sum up Facebook it's to the "forum world" like Trillian was to the "instant message world" in a sense. And thus, its extremely useful if used like that(people who worry about their privacy can fucking blow me, because privacy has been non-existant since the baby days of the internet). Of course not everyone is appealed by social media anyway and that's fine. Tho its definitely shooting oneself in the foot if one neglect it for asinine reasons such as blind hate and whatnot. Just my 5c and hopefully it painted the picture why people give a damn about social media.