[lotusleaf1987]

I had the same experience. I got Facebook in 2005, it was useful for keeping in contact with people in your dorm/class (you could search by dorms/classes then), other people you had recently met, and getting invitations to events. Then your list starts to bloat up with people you really only spoke with once for a few minutes in a class or at a party, you can't deny then or else you're seen as a dick and you're probably going to run into that person several more times so it will just be awkward. Then they let in the high schools and that diminishes its usefulness to me, then they opened it up to everyone with further diminished its usefulness. The longer I actually had a FB account, the less I used it and the less I appreciated it.

Once I graduated college, I deleted everyone that I felt like was only an acquaintance. Once I got a job, the bloat began again. How do you deny a friend request to someone you work with?

Now... I can't stand Facebook. There is no use for me in having friends, coworkers, and relatives in one space unless I'm at a wedding or funeral. Facebook also puts all the burden of responsibility on the user to segregate their friends into 'groups' which is by no means as easy as it should be.

I now feel like just deleting it. I hardly ever check it anymore unless I get a message from someone.

Like you said, I prefer to email or call someone.