It's funny, to appease my Mom and others not on Facebook I setup a self-installed WordPress site to share family content. I then notify subscribers via email, which even these days still is an effective communication tool.

It's actually worked (although publishing to it on my part isn't consistent), and makes me feel much better that my content is stored on my server, in a format I control almost completely.

I think many of us are finding ourselves in a weird middle ground. The younger generation has moved on to Snapchat/Instagram/whatever to chronicle their lapses in judgement and youthful indiscretions, which used to be Facebook's bread and butter. Meanwhile, grammy's using Facebook to play games and forward me click-bait articles (a modern alternative on her FWD:RE:RE:... emails).

I guess as a working adult, LinkedIn should be my go-to network, but no thank you. Hmm, maybe that's where Facebook is going with this.

I'm one week into a Facebook boycott (my first) and already my mom asked me if I had seen something on Facebook about an old high school friend. Keep in mind, my mom isn't even on Facebook .... that's how pervasive it's become.