Jean, Webbie, Sergio,
I am a regular
fakebook er... facebook user and I really don't see it as a substitute for a good forum at this point... maybe in the future. I know users can set up groups and pages for having discussions on specific topics, but I don't see how to maintain discussion threads in a structured way like you do on a forum. Every new post on a facebook page, no matter how trivial, just pushes everything else down the wall.
To me facebook resembles more a class reunion that never... ever ends, with me as the poor stooge in the corner that no one wants to talk to.
I got on originally intending to just connect with family members to share photos and day to day minutiae and then, BLAM, college and high school classmates started sending friend requests, even old teachers, pretty soon I was adding people I was only barely acquainted with.
You quickly realize most of the people that want to add you as a "friend" are just nosy (I was equally nosy) but have no intention of having an ongoing friendship with you.
And most of those people (old classmates, co-workers, family) with only a few exceptions don't seem to be overly interested in posts about my writing either.
As far as I'm concerned you are lucky you've escaped the facebook vortex relatively unscathed. I haven't. It promises a lot more than it delivers. Facebook's header really should say "Abandon hope all ye who enter here!"
Hero