Mainly because the VERY FIRST TIME I go to FB and click on the notifications it will consider ALL of them read, so there will be no further reminders (except for new posts.) I either respond to EVERY SINGLE ONE in a single sitting, or must try to remember where they all are or scroll through them all (and IIRC there is a finite limit to how far one can scroll down through notifications, so beyond a certain point the rest are just... gone.) If participating in more than a few FB groups, it is very easy to get lost, because it is not as simple as simply opening a new tab to a new page that remains static unless manually reloaded: It will regularly refresh on its own as new content is added. I have not been back there since before the election, and am frankly afraid to return, simply because of all the random game requests and status updates about last months dinner I would have to scroll through, not just on the main page but in each group to which I belong, just to find out IF anything worth reading and/or commenting on has been posted.

Also, the posting system itself is absolute GARBAGE for anything much more than one liners. There is no formatting, and I do not even mean html: Boldface, italics and everything else is simply not available (or was not six months ago.) About the most that is possible is adding links, and that will even include a preview window when the post is submitted—but only for the FIRST link; the rest are just embedded in the body of the post as hyperlinks, which can be a bit misleading unless one figures out a way to incorporate the most significant link in such a way that it comes first. Hell, for a long time it was not even possible to have a carriage return, and even now it requires holding down the shift key while pressing return/enter, because simply hitting the return key alone posts the comment and immediately notifies everyone about it. Oh, and all comments longer than a few lines are collapsed so they can only be fully read by clicking on them, and "ain't nobody got time for that," as the FBers say. THAT is how much FB is oriented toward one liners.

The kind of in depth lengthy discussions typical of wotmania, RAFO and most DECENT websites is virtually impossible there. Facebook makes lengthy comments VERY difficult to either post or read, and after a day or two most threads die a quiet death simply because they are so far down most peoples feeds that few new posts are made in them, which means no new notifications, which means they disappear in precisely the way that prompted Lord wotmania to split the original single MB into several. Except opening each of them in a new window (or, later, tab) only loaded the page ONCE, not every five seconds.

It is just a nightmare for any serious complex discussion. If you want to play Candy Crush or Dragon Age against friends though, it is TOTALLY the place to be.

Well, as to that: I would if I could; for the moment, an annaul, if belated, Premie Plus must be sufficient. Or not; it is out of my hands.