Well, I am sure glad you are not the arbitrator as to what is or isn't important in my life. You might decide that my firearms or grandson aren't important. LOL!
You remind me of the guy who claimed that there is no good reason why everyone shouldn't ride a bicycle to work. Or the brain surgeon who claimed that since cell phones have clocks that nobody needs a wrist watch. Both of them pontificating here on FR just like you. Both of them were downright silly.
Note the word real, that is being valuable for one's life.
Clearly, guns have a real value.
Loved ones have significance.
Cell phones, watches and bikes are useful in the real world.
Most of what FB does has no such value or real life significance.
So, your logic is consistent with others who have defended FB, non-existent.
In one article that I recently read, an analyst predicted that Facebook will disappear by 2020. Of course, there is no way to say for certain if he is right or wrong. But, I believe that there is much truth in his prediction. Can you really still see society hooked on Facebook for another 8 years? I can’t. Even if Facebook is huge today, that does not mean that it will be huge in the future. Technology changes faster than ever, and there is a good chance that something new and fresh will be invented that will replace Facebook, and hopefully (a)social networking as a whole, for good.
http://www.facebookdetox.com/
Q: Should I invest in Facebook?
As of now, Stock of Facebook is valued at $34.03 according to NASDAQ. Yesterday it was valued at $38.23 when the market closed. Today it fell $4.20 (a loss of 10.99%). People are going to have to realize that just because something is popular, it does not make a good investment. Facebook, unlike many other products, is an intangible item. Unlike minerals, computers, vehicles, and home cleaners, Facebook can not be touched. Instead, it is a virtual item that can gain and lose popularity according to a person’s/society’s whims. Further, it is not a necessity. You do not need it to run your heat, get from one place to another, compute, or stay clean. Unlike companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Procter and Gamble, AT&T, Conoco-Phillips, Starbucks, Amazon.com etc., Facebook is not something that one can expect to be around for at least another decade or two. Facebook also only has one major product, and that is social networking. I ask then, why would a person find this to be a sound investment?