[lumberjim]

I think it's good for initiating contact with distant friends. ... either distance distant, or time distant.

I recently contacted a former friend/boss that I had not talked to in 10+ years...We switched to phone and chatted like we used to do at 3am working late shift at Dennys. She lives in Maine now. Heidi.

She is like Brianna. Obnoxious, and awesome. I tried to recruit her to the cellar, but she is off the grid. Only gets online sporadically at the college she works for.

I'd rather speak face to face, but some contact is better than none. And if not for fb, there would have been just that.