Also totally disagree. Sounds like the average Hacker News comment that has no bearing on real users. I keep up with all of my college friends (recently left), high school friends, and almost all new San Francisco friends through Facebook.

- I get its messages delivered to my phone.

- Most every party I go to has a Facebook event associated with it.

- Pretty much every picture taken with my friends goes to it (or Instagram).

I'd say that's pretty normal for most people I interact with.

Maybe the Hacker News take on Facebook is similar to the Yogi Berra quote on Ruggeri's restaurant:

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Same here, still at university and Facebook takes up far too much of my time. I and my classmates are on it before, during and after class.

> If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one.

Sometimes I think every social network is doomed to die in a certain number of years. Facebook simply isn't cool any more because everybody's on it now, which mean's it's ripe for disruption by a network of cool people.

I feel inclined to agree. The same thing happened to MySpace, and (in the Netherlands) to Hyves. I'm sure there are more examples.