Yo, zombie!

To finally answer your question about the super-terrific experience you’re missing by not being active on FaceBook, here’s the results of a Google Image search for “facebook profile” — which returned umpteen million screengrabs of various people’s FB front pages. Obviously, these are just static JPEGs that you can’t click on, but at least it’ll give you a pretty good idea of what the layout is. (And you’ll notice that there are only a few ways in which individual users can alter the layout — it’s much less flexible than blogging software.)

As you may glean from the pictures, FB can in some ways serve as a sort of personal blog for people who find the learning curve of blogspot too difficult. (Though the social networking functionality does make it more than merely a “dumbed-down blogging interface”)