With all due respect, with the exception of businesses, organizations promoting ideas or in need of updates etc to specific groups of people and a rare few personality types that enjoy constant socializing, most people that start a Facebook page are just cattle with low self esteem. Go along to get along types. Sadly we are all so easily influenced by friends, families etc, but that it part of what Facebook relies on. I value my privacy and saw this for what it was from the get go and shunned as I have most all marketing strategies that exploits people’s go along to get along weakness. Having written that I do think for some it does have some valuable, redeeming qualities.
One thing I find fascinating about FReepers is that if there is a piece of technology they don’t embrace, there must be some kind of insidious conspiracy behind it, or they’re one of the enlightened few who have not fallen for it.