Participants of our research share the belief that Facebook is a tool that helps to stay in touch with friends who live far or are not part of their routine anymore. Facebook fills a void, offering the students a service that helps them to maintain relationships with people with whom they don't have the desire to talk deeply (for example on the phone), but of whom they don't want to lose track permanently (such as with an email contact that can change or be forgotten). For example, students who first joined Facebook usually adopt the social network in order to stay in touch with friends living abroad. In many cases they say that they became Facebook users before "the Facebook craze" started in Italy and that it is a very efficient way of staying in touch.