On the flip side, though, people considering Facebook a ubiquitous utility is very much a good thing for them. In my experience -- and I am by no means a teen -- Facebook is both the de facto way to stay in touch with extended family and friends worldwide, but it is also the fall-back social platform everyone can count on being a viable option if, for whatever reason, the first or second choice doesn't work. It's still perfectly acceptable for an individual not to use Snapchat, Instagram, Whatsapp, or similar, but everyone now assumes that all their connections have an fb account. Frustratingly, in my life this phenomenon rears its head most often with group structuring and event planning, since fb groups are so easy to create (and actually work pretty darn well). Others have expressed frustration at the inflexibility of fb events ... my experience has been that fb groups -- at least for recurring events -- have supplanted actual events.