My experience with Facebook was that it made me a lot less fond of people that I used to call friends. I'm a bit of a nomad, so I have clusters of friends and f

My experience with Facebook was that it made me a lot less fond of people that I used to call friends. I'm a bit of a nomad, so I have clusters of friends and family that exist in places I've long since left behind. At first, I was curious about what they were up to, but the reality of their curated online selves was more disappointing than enlightening. I was getting a lot of annoying politics and boring photos of kid play dates, pets, dinners, sporting events, etc. Obviously, the quality of your feed depends on the quality of the people you connect with, but I found myself more disconnected from people who previously occupied a nostalgic fondness in my mind. On the other hand, the people who I cared the most about were routinely the quietest people on Facebook because--let's face it--smart, productive people don't waste time on things like that. I'm relatively old (40's), so my experience is also skewed by that. I left by editing my hosts file to block all FB-related servers and never looked back.