Thanks for the detailed description of your experience.<p>I don&#x27;t like framing the issue in terms of &quot;missing out&quot;. It leads to the &quot;paradox of choice&quot;-type worrying. There are always more interesting and fulfilling things to do than hours in a day. You seem to have developed a good social life framework for yourself that doesn&#x27;t include Facebook, so I wouldn&#x27;t say you&#x27;re missing out.<p>As for stream, if mine looked like that I&#x27;d be unhappy too. You could probably clean up yours quickly though - just scroll through it and&#x2F;or visit profile pages of some of your friends, and start &quot;liking&quot;&#x2F;commenting on posts that you find interesting. Facebook filtering algos will quickly catch on your interest, and you&#x27;ll be seeing much less crap.<p>RE etiquette, as far as I can tell you&#x27;re correct; generally you accept people you met IRL, with rare exceptions of both kinds - sometimes you don&#x27;t really like your new acquaintance, and other times you may decide to add someone you met on-line if you know them well enough already. At least that&#x27;s how I myself and people I know use Facebook - maybe the culture is slightly different in other parts of the world. But the rule of thumb seems to be: if you think the person is OK and you might want to talk some more in the future, it&#x27;s OK to send&#x2F;accept a Facebook friendship invite.<p>&gt; <i>It just doesn&#x27;t fulfill any purpose in my life and actively makes me angry.</i><p>That&#x27;s totally fine and, IMO, a perfectly good reason to not use Facebook.