Study: OMG, Facebook's Ending Tomorrow! What Do You Do?

What would Facebook's 500 million active users do if the world's largest social network were to be shut down? Better yet, would you do?

That was the topic covered in a study conducted at Stanford by Andreas Weigend, the former chief scientist of Amazon, who asked respondents to imagine a scenario where Facebook were shut down and all its data destroyed. Can we live without the service? The results provide insight into what matters most to users of social networks.

According to the...