Best or worst aspect of Facebook

The best part of it is that it provides another avenue (in addition to phone, e-mail, blogs, and actual honest to God hand written letters sent through the USPS) to stay in touch with people, which is important to me because pretty much all of my friends live a minimum of 5 hours away, and most of them are librarians which tends to be a peripatetic profession.  I can't place why it seems to be easier to stay in touch with people via Facebook as opposed to these other methods, but, for example,  I've noticed a significant increase in  the amount of my contact with a friend from high school since we both signed up for Facebook.

The worst part of Facebook is that it's addictive. I think it's because, unlike MySpace, you get updates on what your friends are doing as soon as you log in.  (With MySpace you have to click through everyone's profile to see if they've changed anything.  You can subscribe to their blogs, though.)  The same high school friend as above just deleted his account because he found it was starting to become too much of "a thing."  So I'm going to be curious to see if I'll still hear from him as often.

The best aspect of Facebook - The News feed, which constantly points you towards new groups and applications, and lets you see what your friends are up to.

The worst aspect - The fact that the Groups function sucks (once you join a group you rarely do anything with it) and the fact that you have no way of sorting out your friends into relevant groups (e.g. family, friends, business associates)

Best part of facebook is I can keep up to date with what my friends across the country are doing.

It sucks that there is no better monitoring of the group functioning. For example, I had joined a group that stated it was pro-something and a month later, it turned out that the person who started the group lied and deceived everyone in the group because it was actually a anti-group. After I contacted facebook about the issue, they told me they couldn't do anything about it, despite it being morally wrong to deceive people.

If facebook get the "Social OS" thing done right, they would be far more then a quality competition to myspace.

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I agree with some of the things others have pointed out but for me the best part of facebook is simply seeing people I haven't heard from in years. I know that it sounds silly but I wouldn't log on to facebook if it weren't for that exciting feeling of, "who will i meet today...".

The thing I despise facebook for is the fact that I get invitations by people who I simply don't know. There should be some sort of way to stop the ridiculous amounts of invitations that aren't relevant.