For using Facebook for social events only, you can minimize your actual interaction with Facebook itself. I have my account set up to email me event invites, so

For using Facebook for social events only, you can minimize your actual interaction with Facebook itself. I have my account set up to email me event invites, so it gets bundled together with other email-checking only. If you need/want to search for events, you can probably bookmark that page directly and visit it every week or something like that.