That's a good observation. Facebook is becoming like TV in that lots of people spend a ton of time with it even though almost all of its content is trivial, while really productive people tend to spend relatively little if any time with it.

That was a really good comparison.

I never signed up for facebook. But today I'm pretty much the black sheep.

Email, telephone, webpages, those existed long before Facebook. It feels like millions of people think that they are enlighten about internet communications when then become regular Facebook users. I don't like to base my social interaction on a private closed network/service. I prefer distributed and open technologies.

We just browse HN instead of Facebook. :)

There is selection bias and timing.

This story posts on a Saturday night. Also pro-facebookers aren't likely to care so much about yet another usage poll. The ultimate poll is Facebook's site stats.

I'd like to hope people continue to respond into the work week, so we'd get a better pool of people. Should I just ask again later on?