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Changing nature of Facebook, it was inevitable as they added millions of people. Facebook is not good for people who want thousands of passive followers and symmetric relationships with only a few. Some people will leave, or abandon their profiles. All the grandmas and aunts and cousins that don't have thousands of "friends" have established mini-networks, they will be on facebook forever.

It is what I am now going to be calling "the web of people"

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Many of these issues can be solved by grouping people into lists. Unlike Google+/Circles, Facebook introduced this later in the game, but it does fix a lot of those problems.

I have 'Close Friends' that I care a lot about, then I have classmates, contacts, work friends, etc. In that aspect, a bigger social network like Facebook (or Google+) is much better than a smaller more restrictive one.

I think you may be right, but that is a technical aspect. I think there is a psychological aspect. Some people want an exclusive space where they are not reminded work people or relatives or high school bullies exist at all. Even if they allowed you to block any mention of those people it might cause even more "drama" if they keep messaging you and you never reply.

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