I can understand the importance of keeping up with people, but I think Facebook lets you do it at such scale that it becomes meaningless. I care what's going on

I can understand the importance of keeping up with people, but I think Facebook lets you do it at such scale that it becomes meaningless. I care what's going on in the life of the best man at my wedding. I care less what's going on in the life of my lab partner in chemistry all those years ago. Facebook makes it trivial to track both which from a technical side is pretty amazing. However I have limited attention and tracking the lives of that many people is just not sustainable. About a year ago, I deleted every "friend" I had not physically seen and spent time with in the last 18 months. This might not work for everyone, but for me it was incredibly refreshing. Fewer, higher quality relationships was far better. (and yes, I took this to the logical conclusion and just stopped using Facebook. I have not missed it)