Wow Frank, you really opened one up. If I may, I'd like to take the opposite side for a moment. I like FaceBook. True, a good number of the posts from individuals (especially the younger ones) are pure dribble. I just ignore those. However, there are positives. I keep in touch with 10 grand children (7 of whom I am lucky to see every few years because of distance), several family members from brothers, cousins, and even second cousins, a boatload of friends from HS that I have not seen in 40 years and will likely never see face to face again, many people I grew close to in previous jobs that I otherwise would have lost as friends, and literally dozens of businesses, vacation spots, past customers, and causes that I just like to keep up on. I intend to use it to promote my own business when the time is right.
Am I a slave to it, no. But I do check it several times a day. I like chatting with a grand child or buddy from HS once in a while. I comment on the goings on of family members, and occasionally tease a friend.
Like everything in life you need to work through the chaff. Do I care what a long lost friend in NJ had for breakfast? Heck no. Do I want to wish them well before they go in for surgery to remove a tumor, yes. There's a good side to FB. Hard to see sometimes, but it's there.