I’m beginning to wonder if there’s some sort of gender difference in response to FB - particularly amongst the digital immigrant generation. The main reason I love it is it’s the first social media that has had any sort of attraction to my traditional friendship group (as opposed to all the people I’ve met through blogging etc. - it’s difficult to talk about these distinctions when everything is so blurry!). But I’ve noticed that my female friends are much more likely to be on there and active.

It’s kind of like how in families and couples, women are more likely to take responsibility for things like the joint social diary, card giving and present buying, and guardianship of family photo albums (at least they did pre-digital).

Virtual worlds are all well and good, but like you say - they distract from the real business of living life and doing important (most often, non-virtual) things.

I worry about the lack of mystery sometimes - I know more about people now than every before, and sometimes finding out about people is all the fun.