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People drift apart over time sometimes. I’m on Facebook still (TBH it is hard to see much by my friends, between all the algorithmic stuff). Despite being on there, there are some folks I’ve just kind of… lost contact with.

Maybe have a text chain for your friends or something? The folks I really expect to know things about… they’d tell me while we were interacting.

>>bee_ri+(OP)
> People drift apart over time sometimes.

It's admittedly a little easier to drift apart though when you deliberately delete your access to the place where they post all the shit that's happening in their lives...

>>kristi+k
That seems intuitive, but most of the people who I’ve stayed in touch with aren’t really active on Facebook anymore or don’t even have accounts. I wouldn’t be surprised if social media following people provided something like disincentive to actually stay in touch for real. No need to perform the checks that maintain the relationship if the info is all posted right there.

But that’s also a guess. I suspect neither of us have any data to back up our guesses.