For conversations, I use the telephone or face to face or texting.  I do not use facebook.  Although a few years back, I did creep around my daughters' facebook pages - YIKES!

I enjoy snapchat

No, I am not a Facebook user at all. I signed up to have a look at a conversation that was mentioned here, then I poked around a bit and decided to deactivate my account. 

P3, I find that FaceBook for conversation is not like WonderCafe.ca.

I agree CH, but neither is talking on the phone.

I haven't tried snapchat myself.  Some of the FB PMs are done with friends on their phones.

Hi chemgal,

Light ones yes.  Social media makes any discussion with any kind of weight more perilsome than it needs to be.

That said, I know of some young people who may not be with us in the land of the living save for that one status update to their facebook account.

Like any tool those with skill and wisdom know how to use it to everyone's benefit and those without turn it into a weapon to suit their own needs.

Grace and peace to you.

John

It works for more casual talk (e.g. people commenting on the latest viral cartoon or LOLCat image) but I can't see discussions like "The Most Important Theological Question" working there. The posting format and editor just don't lend themselves to lengthy discourses.

Mendalla

FB isn't a great way to hold meaningful conversations, in my experience anyway.  It just isn't safe to share some information - like 'off to the Bahamas in the morning.  Be back in two weeks'.  That is just an invitation to someone to break into your house while there is no one home!  Or - 'big argument with my adult child just now.  S/he is such a selfish dope!' - certainly isn't strengthening family ties!  (I have seen this sort of thing there). 

I am on FB and treat it differently from phone calls, real life conversations,  letters, WC and other discussion sites on the web.  

I think pretty much everyone above is correct to say that Facebook conversations are light, fleeting, and mostly about cats. I post observational stuff there. This morning, I posted the following:

On Wondercafe, just now, I debunked heaven.

Debunked Heaven!!!!????? Blasphemy!

I'm still trying to figure FB out LOL!  I was on FB years ago, and had pretty much figured it out back then.  And when I recently signed up (to keep up contact with family members who use it) everything looked different.  I can't figure out whether I want to "like" "post" "send a message" "post on someone's wall" etc.

I don't post a lot on FB myself, but enjoy seeing the pics of all the kids and family members.  I need my daughter to come over and give me a crash FB course.

I used to like "MSN" for conversations.  When my son was down east we used to chat quite often on MSN - I liked it better than FB.

Nope. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.