Do you regret deleting FB or IG or any social media?

I have long been thinking about deleting my FB account after taking out all the info and datapoints. I have been actively using FB many years ago, I still have a lot of "friends on facebook" who I haven't really talked with in over 3-4 years, I still go to FB because it's a habit and all I get is the waste of time in groups about birds not being real. I feel the urge to delete FB to become more productive (I know, sounds funny). I have already deleted most social media apps from my phone, but I still use it all via browser. There are no benefits from FB, I don't know why I need it, I have not used FB to communicate with anyone from real life in over 4 years. I know many of you have been deleting facebook accounts over a really long time due to data sharing concerns – but after deleting, do you find yourself missing anything from FB? Do you wish you could bring back time and not delete FB? Or do you simply not think about it anymore? I know it should not be a big deal, but FB was the center of my online life many years ago and although, now looking back, I realise it was rather unhealthy and obsessive, I still feel like deleting it would delete a significant part of my life, even if it was in the past.

I have noticed quite a few friends stopped showing up in my feed and when I look for them, they have completely disappeared from Facebook. These are friends from college who don't live nearby anymore, or former coworkers that I would see maybe once a year at kids' birthdays. I miss seeing updates like when they take a cool vacation or their kid wins a baseball game. If there were a way to still get and share updates like these without all the other BS that comes with social media, I'd be interested.

Got on FB in middle school, deleted it at the end of high school. Now I’m like 6 years into my career post college and haven’t looked back

Yes. This is why I got back on these platforms, because much as people on HN might say to use Signal or Telegram, the reality is that network effects are incredibly strong. I missed many, many things being outside of those circles, simply because people will not go out of their way in their day to day life just to cater to you. Once or twice, or perhaps for important things like weddings or birthdays, but the biggest thing that's lost is spontaneity of interaction.

Since rejoining, I've had many nice experiences catching up with people based on their Instagram or Snapchat stories, or being in Facebook Messenger group chats, something I would not have spontaneously been able to do had it not been for these platforms.

No I have not missed it at all.