I've never been a big fan of the social networking, but I finally broke down and created a facebook page for myself. Did it on January 1st. I thought the first day of the new year would be as good a day as any to create an account.
I've been searching more for living descendants now than for the early generations. I still have some early generation mysteries to solve, but those could be real time consuming and require something other the using the internet from home to solve.
Just putting a name and state in for a person in a search engine has been bringing me to many relatives Facebook pages. I was able to obtain and confirm things from these sites before, but didn't realize how much more there was available as a user until just this week.
I was able to add five pretty recent births to the tree since I created it. This info wouldn't have been available to me otherwise.