Highly recommend the chrome extension Facebook Purity. It strips your feed of the nonsense you don't care about in a very configurable way.
Yeah, I could force my friends to call me every time they want to grab dinner, but that would be annoying for everyone involved and not respectful of how they want to communicate.
Sounds like they’re “forcing” you on to a platform and aren’t prepared to be friends with you if you’re not on it.
I agree that it would be possible if I cared enough. I don't agree that refusing to use a glorified messaging app with an integrated calendar, just because it comes with a feed that some people get addicted to but none of us ever look at, is a good recommendation that will make life better for me and the people around me.
You’re making some huge assumptions here, as if people are on some kind of wild protest.
I don’t use Facebook just like I don’t own a boat or go to church. It’s not valuable to me, so I don’t do it.
The disconnect here is that this is an innacurate conception of Facebook, which is a privacy-destroying, propaganda-spewing advertising platform with some addictive social features to bait the lure.
Think of it this way: I don't like the smell of cigarette smoke. No matter how much I like someone, I won't be around them if they're smoking. If they insist on smoking while I'm around, I'll find somebody else to socialize with. And to me, Facebook is just as unpalatable as smoking.