I agree with you about how people all use Facebook in their own way. I set mine up to as a pipeline to stay in contact with friends and family who are scattered everywhere. For ten years, I've been ghosted on by many so-called FB friends, and have deleted acquaintances whose profile sits stagnant on my FB wall, b/c they don't actually want to be friends with me in real life.

I debate deleting my FB profile daily, b/c it makes me depressed to see all my FB friends posting about their fabulous lives with their 4,000 Facebook friends; whereas I just post pop culture and news and funny memes on my FB wall, and rarely do I post something personal. I have one FB friend who posts multiple selfies a day, and has rejected my invites to get together multiple times, yet has time to get together with our mutual FB friends and posts photos of them going out without me on her FB wall. It's maddening.

At the end of the day, Facebook is not reality, but it is. What people post on their wall creates a false reality, a distorted reality. Yet, the reality is, people use Facebook to connect for business reasons, if they are an artist, musician, or whatever, to stay in touch with their fan base. Or, people use it to stay connected with friends and family.

I feel strange b/c I don't have 5,000 Facebook friends. I have less than 100. I don't know how people can create such a large social network offline, and online like that.