Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
The more people use it, the more money Facebook makes, so it makes sense for them to encourage you to use it as much as possible, meaning that they want you to use it for more than just keeping tabs on far away people.
Theres no escaping the fact that facebook along with other social networking sites, are completely free to use, you aren't forced to, even if they want you to it never appears that they are out to take your money at every turn.