Facebook is 'dead and buried', replaced by simpler networks, study finds

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70. I think you've hit the reason for its decline in the young

In real life you have exchanges on different levels and different topics depending on the person you communicate with. In FB there's too much risk that this personal link will be seen by someone who you don't want to see it.

Like a parent finding out that their chaste daughter has been having carnal thoughts. Or a friend overhears something said about her.

IOW, if you can't be totally social in the ways you need to be social, what good is it? All the stuff is bland. Like eating at an old people's buffet. Where's the spice?

Then there's the boss.

When I set up my FB I used my real last name but a combo of my wife and my first name. The wingnuts on the local rightwing newspaper have an active goal to eliminate opposing views. So they flagged my posts. The newspaper kicked it to FB cause I wasn't using a real name. Splitting hairs.

FB asked for an image of my driver's license or other gov't ID. Aside from the crazy idea that they would include exact DOB in their system, what person in their right mind would send that image off to the ether?