I tried that with my alumni... and gained a slow, deepening hatred for most of them. Facebook's slowly helped me weed out my weaker friendships and replace them with stronger ones (which should be done in college, but whatevs #socialawkwardness).
That said, for family and long-distance relationships, I'm sure it's convenient. For alumni, nah, everyone I knew back in high school was "friend'ed" because Facebook was the "cool new thing everybody wanted to be a part of" back then. Nowadays, I see gigantic friends lists of people I'm almost certain were never in the same room together.
edited 27th Dec '14 6:40:31 PM by FOFD
I first got one because a bunch of people freshman year of high school kept bugging me to get one. By now, I use it as a receptacle for my stand-up routine that will never exist. (By which I mean I mostly use it to make snarky, jokey posts either making fun of things or throwing absurd, random musings out there, and more than occasionally funny photos with snarky remarks.)
I sometimes also plug my music on their (either stuff I've recorded myself or stuff I like that I want people to hear), but I don't have enough recorded or a high enough profile in that area to actually go ahead and make a page for that.
It's also helped me keep in touch with people, including some people I've only met online. Most of my Facebook friends ate people I've gone to school with, but I've got a handful of people added from this very site and a couple I've met elsewhere online (including one girl I started talking to through an argument on something a page posted, with whom I'm now reasonably close friends).
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.Someone should have started this thread 3 years ago. Better late than never though.
I have not been using it regularly for some time. For some reason, Facebook decides to hide recently posted status from my Wall. Most of these posts are by friends I seldom interact there. I thought my lack of activity must be the reason that happens. So, I started posting and "liking" more but the issue persists. Oh well....
Every time someone argues that Facebook is useless, I always say that Facebook is useful for long-distance relationships. It's the only reason that supports my opinion that Facebook isn't totally worthless and that reason is solid enough. Though, I think Whatsapp would eventually become the new hip way to socialize and throw Facebook into the history pages.
I also "like" plenty of pages there. In fact, the pages I "liked" there are more than the "friends" I have there. Media websites always post on pages about the latest news updates. It's easy to keep track of them this way.
I've been thinking about leaving Facebook for a year now. Trouble is, so many in my circle use Messenger it's kinda hard to abandon it altogether. What do you think, would it be worth anything if I just told facebook I will only continue messenger? (there is an option for that). I mean the passwords for the two are the same...
Edit: I logged in to Facebook just to check and was greeted with the message that I was one of the people whose pw was on a server with no password protection. Well, that helped my decision.
Edited by akanesarumara on Apr 4th 2019 at 8:19:27 PM
There's also the option of no longer using Facebook, but not deleting your account. Then you just pop in every week or so, and if anyone has messaged you you can direct them to whatever new apps or services you're using. That's what I did, and everyone who I cared about had switched to other platforms to communicate with me over the course of about a month.
There are also some browser add-ons to quarantine Facebook so it can't read everything else you're doing, though I'm not sure if there's anything like that on phones.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.

So uh, who uses Facebook? And for what?
I've had an FB account since around the same time I graduated from high school. Originally, it was created to keep in touch with my school alumni, as well as other family members and friends. Nowadays, I just use it to roam around anime/video game fan pages and groups, some of the shitposting kind, while also still keeping in touch with family and friends.