Of course no one "needs" Facebook. Or a cell phone. Or computers. Or coffee. But they're still of value. The values of Facebook are varied. I'm a full-time tra

Of course no one "needs" Facebook. Or a cell phone. Or computers. Or coffee. But they're still of value. The values of Facebook are varied. I'm a full-time traveler and it's easy to find an English-speaking Facebook group for any country I visit, which is of real value and note something I would otherwise find. Facebook is also useful for sharing photos with friends and family without necessarily sharing them with the world like you used to with Flickr or Smugmug. Granted, there are other ways of having forums, or photo sharing, or anything else. But that misses the point. For whatever reason, Facebook became the de facto way to do certain things. And if you want to delete facebook, it's nice to have an alternative with some feasibility in reaching a critical mass.