Facebook is fine, guys. You can ignore things you don't like. I don't mean like here, I mean you can literally tell FB to stop showing you things you don't want to see.
I prefer to keep to myself and don't have a ton of friends (maybe a few I'd trust with my life, along with a couple of dozen I know would have my back; the rest are mostly acquaintances). The type of relationship I have with people I keep tabs on (and who keep tabs on me) is one in which, when we get together on rare occasions, it's always as if we never lost touch. Part of that is due to FB.
Besides, I like to see pictures of those family, friends and acquaintances who I've know forever, but don't keep in great touch with, growing old like me; growing a family, buying a house, new cars, whatever. "Hey, the dude I played HS football with just had another baby [posted a funny meme; is going through some hard times; etc.]" that I can respond to, allowing some modicum of a relationship