To ask you am I missing out by not being on Facebook ?

[SoMuchPain]

I went on a social media detox late last year...this means deactivating all my accounts. As it stands I only miss instagram...I logged back into Facebook and it was nice to see some friendly faces but there was a lot of bullshit too and it's not like many of those people have contacted me in real life so what's the point of seeing their lives? I feel I've outgrown Facebook. Instagram though I do miss... I miss a few of the funky pics some of my friends would take and the fun element of it...Facebook is all serious aibu? Am I missing out? I feel like I'm so over it.....but this week I've had a few oh you're not on Facebook anymore messages from people (it's only taken them 4 months to notice) so I'm like well what's the point?

I've found it's getting less personal and evolved into a portal of interesting groups/ articles rather than personal comments.

I've always liked the way that it's interesting snippets of my friends' lives, but I've been selective about who I accept and follow. My friends are more likely to post about their comic downfall moments than show off anyway.

I generally have a year or so on it then come off for a couple of years. I hate how the tagging means your feed is clogged up and seeing things people 'like' . I'm considering a new profile without a personal pic as last time tried to set up a quiet account with only certain people and didn't know it would suggest me to other Mutual friends
The best bit is people's photos of key events and people .

I've always liked it, but have found aspects annoying recently.

Far flung family.
Love seeing what my friends are up to.
The school fb group is the only way I have any idea what is going on.
I use it for work, have my business page and follow other people I need to for work.

However, I have let too many acquaintances on recently. Some of them are boring (I've just made my 3rd cup of tea for the day), some are selling MLM shite and some of them constantly link to those news articles which aren't true and David Avocado Wolfe memes.

They are mainly school mums, so it would be very hard to delete them, but keep using the school group. I think I need to work a lot harder on my follow settings, but I'm a bit nervous about doing this, as one person I hid because they were a bit annoying, had a bereavement, which I found it hard to explain how I knew nothing about, without having to tell them I'd hidden them...was awkward!

If you don't want to be on it you could still keep in touch with friends and family....could they not e-mail everyone the same message and photo? Or send a letter in the post! (obviously it is easier to send everyone the same message).

I think I'm just going to have to do a ruthless audit when I can be bothered to go back on!