I find your lack of a Facebook account highly suspicious. How will I ever see you?

It is anyone’s right to choose if they will participate on social channels and share bits of their life.  That being said, it is occasionally difficult to keep up with people in this day and age if they unilaterally ban social media as a method of communication.

Pew research shows that Facebook is used by 57% of all American adults and 73% of all those ages 12-17. Adult Facebook use is intensifying: 64% of Facebook users visit the site on a daily basis, up from 51% of users who were daily users in 2010.  

So the people who see your updates via their spouse’s account are halfway there.  But often you know nothing about their life or current interests if friends of yours don’t have their own Facebook account.  Even if someone doesn’t often, or ever, update their own profile, many will occasionally “like” or comment on something you post.  At least that way you know they are still alive.

I realize that Facebook isn’t for everyone.  I get tired of it constantly.  It’s even good to take a break here and there.  But unfortunately it is one of the major ways people communicate these days.  It is also a very powerful business tool.

Think about it.  Do most people respond faster to a Facebook message or an email?

What do you think?  Are your friends missing out if they don’t have Facebook?