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I got a facebook account to get in touch with just one person from my past, with whom I failed to exchange contact information with back in the day. Besides that, I never had it through highschool, and go on once a month or so... There's absolutely nothing in the mindless chatter environment of facebook that makes it worth being there. I can talk to almost everyone through far less needlessly public means, that are more conducive to just the communication itself.

But yes, good for you. If you quit, I applaud you. I wouldn't have ever gotten on had it not been for necessity anyway.

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please don't stop using facebook, it would dry up the source of failbook.org!

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The strenght of facebook is getting connected with people you lost contact with.

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You don't lose contact with people*. You just don't care for keeping contact (and maybe later you'll regret it). It's no inevitable destiny, it's your very own free decision.
Therefore if you feel the need to find someone from your past via a centralized platform like facebook, there must have been something in the past that made you lose contact, something that made you not to care for keeping contact. This is usually for a good reason. If you later regret it, that reason might have not been so good in the first place. So without facebook and co. people might be more attentive when it comes to making social decisions.

*) If you're old enough to know how to exchange contact information.

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I dont think that when you lose contact with someone its about not caring anymore.
It just happens that sometimes there are different things that are more important, thus not having time to keep contact.

Also I'm not saying facebook is all about finding old contacts.
Its just one of the strenghts of the site.

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I can't think of anything that might be more important than to keep contact with people I care about.
Also I don't have time. I take time.

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Sure, but lets face it. Keeping in contact can't be done alone.

Ive had a friend for example who had to leave the country because of his dad.
His dad was very sick, so my friend went there to spend the last few weeks his dad had.
While in that proces we both tried to keep in contact but he had a lot on his mind and the contact slipped away.

Weeks went past and at some point we both never actually took the step to contact each other again.
We basically moved on with our lives, I was getting graduate and
he made the decision to stay at the country after his dad passed away so he could take care of the family.

A couple years later I found him on Facebook, wich was awesome.
Now we are back in contact and we both have no hard feelings at all that we didn't kept contact.

So yea of course you can 'take' time for some-one but he also must 'take' time for you and thats something that doesn't always happen.

You can say Facebook made people non-attentive when it comes to making social decisions.
Or you can see Facebook as a different way of getting attentive when it comes to making social decisions.

In the end its about how you use something to make it useful or not.

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Hah, it's like quting World Of Warcraft. You ALWAYS go back to it :p

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Nothing social can be done alone. Both sides have to be interested, otherwise it doesn't work, no matter which medium you use.

Up to this point I can understand your situation. There are always situations that might interfere with your social contacts, but if you really care for those contacts you'll sooner or later reactivate them anyways, at least when your contact data changes.

Why not? This is what I don't understand.

I'm not saying that Facebook is useless. I'm just saying that you don't need it to get in contact with people from your past, because either you still know ho to contact them using other ways or they are people from the past for good reasons.

I'm pretty sure you would have either found a way to contact your friend anyway, or you wouldn't mind if you could not have reestablished the contact. Facebook might have made that easier, but I don't think it was necessary.
I have two friends that I haven't met for years and we don't even speak with each other regularly - just because we have no common topics anymore. All three of us have moved several times since we've been in close contact, but we still know how to contact each other - without facebook or similar means.

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Oh yes thats very true you don't need Facebook for getting back with someone from the past.
My point being is its a great 'tool' to get back in contact with someone from the past.

Also my last sentence wasn't referring to you saying its bad.
I have a bad habit to make 1 sentence at the end of a long post a sort of TLDR ;)

As for why we didn't contacted is he got a new phone number, so I couldn't contact him and he was to busy getting a back his life on track with a job etc.

Just want to add a quick note:
I think its awesome to have a discussion* on a normal level.
People here tend to become very offensive if someone doesn't agree with him/her/it ;)

*If we can call it a discussion :)