Who here relies on Facebook to communicate with friends and family and why?

It is an easy way to communicate with our family and friends who are spread out all over the world.

Gotta adapt to the times...

I use Facebook because it's constant availability, ease of use and, well, everyone's on it.

You can communicate with more people at once and it allows for constant interaction; even with people you may not normally have communication with.

For important stuff, I use the phone (or drive/fly).

It's fast cheap and easy, plus there are certain people that you love as family, but can't stand to be around so it allows a bit of a filter/barrier to avoid any issues. Also it allows great flexibility, if you are say on the otherside of the planet, and are living on different schedules you can have a message delivered that will be readable by the person when they get a chance instead of calling at odd hours of the day or night, or paying for international texts.