Posted By:
Jim VB"...though I could never figure out the use for it."
David,
I'm with you about not understanding the use, but I'm trying hard to figure it out. My son recently graduated from high school. He had 426 kids in his graduating class. If you search Facebook for that high school and graduating year, you come up with 402 matches. Being a little bit surprised by this, I went back and looked at the school he attended in Ohio for his freshman year. That Class has about 300 students. A search yielded 288 matches.
Whether we understand it or not, it has become the universal method for this generation to keep track of friends and acquaintances.
I never see myself writing: "Jim is going to the bathroom and then taking a ride to Home Depot!", but some people obviously feel the need to keep us all posted on everything they do.
Edited to add- My 15 year old daughter was shocked that so many kids in each of these examples did NOT have a page set up.