I know many people chastise Facebook and the people who use it as nothing but social introverts, and even consider it an addiction and source of depression, but I personally have no problem with it. I’m not a frequent user and feel it’s important to interact face to face and be active away from the computer screen, but at the same time I have friends in Canada, friends in Sweden, and friends on the east coast and it’s a very convenient way of keeping in touch with them all. 

Not only that, they just released their Paper app, and if the reviews are anything to go by they really did it right. It attempts to go beyond Facebook’s news feed by giving you a streamlined and customized for you newsfeed, stripping away the peripohery of the web-based site and providing additional means of interaction. It was also widely reported that teens are leaving Facebook in droves, because they don’t like being in the same social environments as their parents, and are migrating to other services such as tumblr and SnapChat, Twitter and Instagram, leaving nothing but adults behind. So the reasons to stay just keep getting better!

Also, the service has just turned 10, which is worse than dog years in tech, and even with the debates over who actually started it, is valued at $150 billion. Not bad (or is it?).  

Thoughts? Love Facebook? Hate it? Don’t care? It’s been a surprising area of debate for some time.