Has anyone totally scaled back FB?

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I like FB for keeping in touch with family, true friends and a couple of groups I'm a member of but beyond that I really don't care about 90% of people I'm friends with and am not interested in reading their feed. One problem is I have a unique name so people that I meet can find me very easily and send me a Friend request. In the past I wasn't choosy but I really just want to get rid of all these people and just keep around 20-30 people that I'm actually interested in. I also want to change my Facebook name to my maiden name and have a generic photo of flowers as my user profile so I will be harder to find if people Google me. If I do this though I wonder if Facebook will remember that I used to be friends with these people and start recommending they send me a Friend request? I know that Facebook looks through your email account so I don't know whether it would be easier to just open a new Facebook account with a new email address and just send Friend requests to the people I want to keep on or if it is possible to somehow disconnect FB from my email account.

has anyone every done anything like this? How did it work?

I would just open a new account, with a new email and a nickname. I have the same problem, so have one account with my very unique name for the world to see if they care, and one very private account for close family and friends.

It saved me from refusing to add work-related "friends", mums met at school, family members I see once every 10 years... Just give your new details to your close ones.

you could accept frs but unfollow them, and put them on restricted access, so it looks as if you don't use FB. You can alter your name on FB, although it's not wonderfully easy. It is possible to go into your settings and tell FB not to have access to your email contacts

Ok, I think I will have a go at making a new account and phasing over. I could put people on restricted and unfollow them but it seems a lot of effort when I don't really want to be "friends" with them anymore. I might just keep the old account as is (shh, don't tell Facebook) just in case I have a change of heart in a few months.

Thanks for the help!