A world without facebook

I have given up facebook for lent and so haven't looked at it now for nearly two weeks. I initially joined facebook because my study group in phase 1 were using it to organise revision sessions and so in order to find out about them I needed a facebook account. Facebook has now grown and so many people I know use it. It is great for keeping in touch with people, and for re-establishing contact with people who I haven't heard of for years. However, it can be a bit strange at times and takes away the need for personal communication which I think is quite sad. I have learned about a couple of engagements via facebook and also that one frined had given birth. Whilst facebbok is a great way to communicate with lots of people at once, I think that it sometimes is a shame to learn important informtation through status updates. Anyway, that's not a problem for me at the moment seeing as I'm no longer using it! In fact, I am currently having the opposite problem and feeling very out of the loop. Anything could be happening in the facebook world and I wouldn't know about itI I guess all I can hope is that if anything significant happens in my friends' lives I will learn about it in the good old fashioned way, a conversation or text message/email.