> Uh, it was heavily marketed towards us, too.

Absolutely it was. It was also quite different in the beginning, though. Many people saw facebook as a photo-sharing site and a way to exchange stupid, public-facing messages. Remember a year or so after the news feed introduced and fb messaging was just becoming a thing (no dedicated app yet) and people started freaking out that their "private" messages were now public when really it was just stuff they had written on each others "walls" that in everyone's minds (with not fault to them) was private to their friend group?

> And it was a godsend to those of us stuck at home in suburban hell,

Very fair so ya, my life-long city-boyness is showing.