I've avoided facebook since my impression is that is full of keeping up with the joneses bullshit, a lot of faking and very superficial in general on the other hand, folks say it's a good way to stay in touch with people that you kinda know but wouldn't talk to otherwise
I like the fact hipforums is anonymous, but I did like it more when I was younger, to be honest. First came here 10 years ago, came back recently and it's OK, not nothing like it was. Facebook is driving me crazy, I end up on there and I don't know why. I am going to restrict myself to checking it once a week once I have moved to my boyfriends city and don't need FB to easily keep in touch with him. I would still choose Facebook, out of the two, however.
One of them is a social network where I talk to people I now and the other is a message board where I go purely just for fun. There is no comparison between the two sites.
I'm so over facebook, its too creepy People you knew 10 years ago and you didnt really even like them, sticking their nose in your business