@Gargron @Nigma 😲

A lot of these replies are enlightening but to me, facebook replaced myspace which was like an easier to maintain group of contacts than the oldschool pen and paper. What brought me to it was everyone was on it. Could find anyone I knew by name and face and keep in touch with them. People change phone numbers and even emails, so having a consistent directory was the only attraction for me. It's something that is difficult to replicate elsewhere and comes with inherent privacy issues baked in.

@quatschmitsauce well how do you get started? I figured social, being the biggest instance, it'd be active but seems pretty dead, at least on the local timeline.