It has nothing to do with not caring about friends. It has everything to do with the company itself. Every news story that comes out just confirms my decision. Not one of them has made me think that I was being too hasty in my decision.
Before FB, it was possible to stay in contact with family, friends, etc. Was it as easy? Maybe. Email was perfectly fine. What FB (and everyone else in social too) was make so damn easy to post to the world "here's what I'm doing this exact second. please look at me!" The noise went sky high, and the signal went very faint. Then the algorithms kicked in, and the signal got even harder to find.
It's not that I don't care about friends, it is that FB has no greater value than just talking/texting to people. FB just tries to pretend they bring value to things we already had and still do, before it existed.
FB has negative value compared to talking to people face-to-face in real life… but even while it continues to destroy value by undermining our relationships, various communities have been captured there due to network effects, and then you have to use FB if you want to connect to that community.
