Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:13:46 on Fri, 19 Jul
2019, Anna Noyd-Dryver remarked:

Facebook is a great way of keeping up to date with friends and
acquaintances who I don’t see for years at a time and don’t have any need
to communicate with regularly on a 1-to-1 basis.

There's also the bods one has never met (but might do one day).


Indeed so! I have comparatively few of those, mostly from this group!

Joking apart, Facebook has sufficient critical mass, and manages to keep
kooks out successfully enough, that it's possible to link up with people
who are almost famous in their day jobs (and will never have heard of
Usenet; nor if they had, be the slightest bit inclined to join in).


Facebook connections being split into Friends (for people) and Pages (for
famous people and organisations) means that I’m unlikely to send a friend
request to the personal profile of someone remotely famous; Twitter OTOH is
much better for that sort of thing, as it has only one level of
'Following'.


Anna Noyd-Dryver