Facebook is still attractive despite the negatives, and I haven't yet seen a good wholesale replacement for it.
Personally I'd like a better feed manager built into the browser itself. And a very simple way to publish too. Access control is the difficult problem.
Why has my comment been down voted? The point of the post is social media apps cause a privacy concern. What about Facebook itself? This is like go remove a couple of small cancerous tumors but let's not treat the lung cancer.
Additionally, for email, IM, Skype, and text, you need to know their email address, username, or number to contact them. In Facebook, there's a chance that you can find them by just searching their name.
If someone (family or not) does not have my email address and/or phone number there is a reason for it so certainly won't want them contacting me on Facebook...
I know that i wont if id had to write an email, which i dont even have for many of my contacts from these times.