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> It's not that hard, you've just forgotten how to do these things without Facebook. This doesn't work because the world has changed since Facebook didn't exist. Now that it does, some forms of social interaction that existed outside of FB now only exist on FB. I have friends with whom FB is the only form of communication with them, and many more friends with whom FB is easily the primary form. You can't singlehanded…
You can and should ask your friends to adapt if FB is the only form of communication they will have with you. First off, you're doing a terrible thing to yourself by framing it as if you have only two choices: Become FB's product or become ostracised from your social circle. The latter is a deeply-ingrained biological fear, back in our tribal hunter/gather days, this basically meant death. Advertising has been abusin…
To recap, I have a bunch of friendships that are so minor that I only have contact with them on FB. They're not serious enough to demand the other person to move off FB. (We're talking about "I randomly like one of there posts every few months" minor.) They may become more serious in the future due to the ephemeral nature of friendships. Leaving FB would sever those friendships before they get to that stage.
Hopefully that makes sense!