A couple of years back I quite liked FB, it led to getting in touch with people I'd not seen for years, the usual thing. These days I've come to see a less pleasant aspect to it, it seems to magnify the more dubious aspects of human relations and highlight the fact that when you've got serious problems to deal with in life there's only 2 people on your friends list who give a damn. A large portion are only interested if their being associated with you brings some sort of social enhancement, that tends to be the game I guess.
That, along with a vague feeling that it's all too 'corporate', without knowing what that means or whether it's worth caring about privacy/data protection, I'd like to find a less glossy, less advert-laden alternative.