I loved Facebook early on. 2006-2008 it allowed me to reconnect with a ton of old high school friends just ahead of my ten-year reunion. I moved away right afte

I loved Facebook early on. 2006-2008 it allowed me to reconnect with a ton of old high school friends just ahead of my ten-year reunion. I moved away right after graduating and had lost contact with basically everyone before that. But I've long since drifted away, ditched Facebook, and just kept people's phone numbers for the few I still care about. Trying to stay friends with people in faraway cities I never see in person in perpetuity by seeing their pictures pop up in a feed every now and then seems like a pointless fool's errand. I could also see the people I'd become friends with "online native" gathering into cliques and echo chambers and becoming increasingly radical and angry, and I am neither of those things and wanted no part of it. Hobbyist communities exclusively for me from now on.