Uses of Facebook

Now I come to facebook. It is brilliant for ephemeral communication. I have suggested to them that they set an option for a 2 day latency,such that anything you write is automatically expunged for ever after 48 hours. We can argue about the length of time. It is painful to go through manually deleting everything. Observing the younger generation, there is a lot of stuff going up there that one would not want in any sense permanent. On the other hand, it is a very slick way of display to your circle should they wish to see what you are up to. And, when you make a new contact, you can give them a semi-public glimpse of the wider scene which then deletes, leaving an impression but no usable material.