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Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by jacobolus on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:25PM (#16278101)
Most of the people who used facebook in 2004–2006 had (and used) other ways to chat via their computers or cellphones. Most people’s profiles listed their phone numbers, email addresses and various chat service handles.

Facebook wall conversations were not used as a poor imitation of private chat, but a separate form of quasi-public communication.

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Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by floren on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:40PM (#16278206)
Yeah, thinking back, Facebook was largely a convenient way to find and keep track of my friends' IM handles. And their phone numbers, back in the day when losing a phone meant losing all contacts because they're stored on the device.
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Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by jimmies on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:09AM (#16279911)
Thinking back, Facebook was really a face book...
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