There's more to staying connected with family than calling them up, a completely synchronous action that interrupts the lives of both involved just to happen. But it's also not scalable to keep a large family or friend group up to date with whats going on in your world, or catch up with whats going on in theirs by calling every one of them up.
A phone call, an email, a Zoom meeting, a Skype meeting, even a letter away for those too far away to meet in person....
Most of my (large, 25+) extended family has done so.
And we've used it too. Fortunately for me, Zoom invites also provide a local call in number and I use that -- not from my smartphone, but from a bog standard cordless phone connected to an ATA[0] situated outside my firewall -- to join Zoom meetings.
No, my family doesn't get to see my shining face, but they already know what it looks like.
I've considered setting up a self-hosted Jitsi[1] instance, but it seems like overkill for my needs.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_telephone_adapter
[1] https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...
In some circles, Facebook is the only way to communicate and organize events. If you are not there, you are cut out in real life.