I hate the fact that I am a regular user as the whole concept of the site drives me insane. I recently executed a cull on my friends list and managed to remove

I hate the fact that I am a regular user as the whole concept of the site drives me insane. I recently executed a cull on my friends list and managed to remove over 50% of my 'friends' but I'm still left with a list of over 100 people, the majority of whom believe the main purpose of the site is to regurgitate other peoples status updates, take pointless quizzes and posting the results on my wall (I don’t care if you would last 17.8 seconds in a fight with a raptor). I’ve been battling with the idea of simply deleting my profile and thus freeing myself from this social millstone but that leaves me with two problems: 1) I live in the UK and almost all my family & friends are based in Ireland and Facebook is unequivocally the best medium for me to share photo’s of my 12 week old baby boy and keep them up to date with our progress in the UK. 2) If (when) I delete my profile it subsequently deletes all of the photo’s I have uploaded which means my family will lose a huge amount of pics that they have saved in their albums. Now I am well aware that there are a multitude of platforms that will allow me to share my family photo’s without being bombarded with pointless quizzes, polls and religious/political flame wars but trying to convince my computer illiterate family to adopt a new social platform would be akin to playing pool with a rope. I admit to feeling trapped by this social giant and I live in hope that within the next few years a new platform will take the world by storm that will enable me to keep in touch with my family without having to trawl through pages of pointless content to find anything of remote interest. /rant