I've never seen the point of Facebook in the first place.
Twitter is useful as a way for reporters to rapidly disseminate breaking news, but it isn't necessary to set up an account there in order to read a reporter's Twitter feed.
I've never seen the point of Facebook in the first place.
If you think of it (and use it) as conversation among friends, it's fun.
I've never seen it as a source of breaking news any more than I think of A2K
that way.