At some point, people merely adopted these platforms, transitioning from nothing to something. The notion that we can't simply transition from Facebook to nothing is nonsense.

Its called calling, or writing those important to you. This has always existed. Quit trying to app the problem away. Its social, not technical.

Facebook free for 6 years and I find no reason to have it. At most when Facebook loyals use it to organize events. And I find it about those through actually seeing people. Plus I love shocking people with "yeah I don't use that crap" to see how they react. Maybe given recent events they will react differently?

No problem. I found some cool new facebook replacements the other day.

1. IRC 2. Email 3. Forums 4. Blogs 5. RSS

for sure decentralised. I want to be running a node