Hello I.Am.The.End: I'm not on Facebook. Facebook scares me. I never hear anything good about Facebook. But then I'm a solitary old codger. So it really doesn't matter.
I have been mulling over the idea of returning to YouTube. I used to have a YouTube channel which I closed a while back. Sometimes I think I'd like to open a new channel. It would mostly be because there's allot of music on YouTube I enjoy listening to. I often listen to music videos on YouTube while I'm replying to posts here on PC. But then at other times I think: what's the point?
When I think about opening a new channel... do I use my old username... which a few other YouTubers would recognize, or do I take a new name & go stealth? I don't think I would ever upload videos myself again... but if I opened a new channel, I'd probably start to want to. Decisions, decisions, decisions! What did we ever do before we had the internet to worry about?
From what you wrote, it sounds like you may have to return to Facebook in order to have any semblance of a "normal" life. I guess that's just the way it is nowadays. Maybe just try to take it one small step at a time & see how it goes. There are advantages to getting old...