Leaving social media really helped me evaluate who my actual friends are, and who were just names on a list. If someone is only willing to communicate with me if it's through a single corporate-mediated ad/promotion machine, and will just stop contacting if I'm not on said machine, are they really my friend? I've come to the conclusion "No" and honestly, I feel my life is better off interacting with fewer real friends than awash in the feeds of numerous names-on-a-list.

At the end of the day, I realized I don't care about such-and-such events, births, deaths, etc. of people who will only talk to me if it's through Facebook.