There are many reasons to have facebook. I have a love hate relationship with it. On one hand it gives you instant access to everyone you know and if you like people and have great friends that are on there its fun to be in touch with them. On the other hand it may undermine your social life by giving you a false sense of having a social life.

I personally like sharing humor on facebook. I like giving people a hard time on facebook. I store photos on facebook. If my house burnt to the ground right now...I wouldn't worry as much about photos because most of my favorites are stored on facebook for free easily. Its also my personal journal that I can look back and see what i was doing and what my kids looked like a year or two ago. So it is amazing for family history. I've learned about emergencies and trials that others are having on facebook. I have used it for messaging people while saving money on text messages. I am able to keep in touch with my uncle in cyprus like he is a next door neighbor. Its amazing. I wouldn't have any sort of relationship with him without it. I learned about my mission presidents death on facebook. I get news on facebook. I dont feel at all like having an account erodes my manliness. I just post the manly things i'm doing so people understand that. haha. I realize there are annoying things about facebook and some people I put on ignore. But really if you hate facebook it might mean that you hate everyone that you know. But I'm in total agreement that you have to spend less time online and more out in the real world making real friends and real talk and communication.

Joint accounts are dumb in my opinion. They are confusing.