For moms who use a pacifier, or have a strong opinion on why you should/shouldnt use them.....?

My mom never used them with me and my siblings, and she seems disappointed in a way that I just umed I would use them with my baby. She also was strict with us about taking the bottle away for good at our first birthday. I was just curious to know for moms who do you a binkie, when did you introduce it, and when did you take it away? did you feel it was beneficial to use one??