Andrew Sleeth: Majority, unplugged

I’m not big on statistics, but I still regularly check The N&O’s “Notable numbers” that appear each Saturday.

So when the Aug. 29 business article “What’s in a billion? Facebook users hit daily log-in milestone” informed us Facebook had recently passed a major milestone with the log-in of one billion users during a single day, I realized the editorial page missed a precious opportunity to herald a noteworthy figure: 6.3 billion, the number of people who didn’t log into Facebook.

That represents the overwhelming majority of humanity, including those of us who find an obsessive preoccupation with a digital corkboard just a mite unappealing and who still feel that sitting down face-to-face across from another human being is really the only genuine way to be sociable and friendly.

This story was originally published September 4, 2015 at 5:34 PM with the headline "Andrew Sleeth: Majority, unplugged."