Will the Last One to Leave Facebook Turn the Lights Off?

Facebook’s photo filters are so kind, especially at my age.

As a Boomer, I embraced Facebook as an easy way to reconnect with childhood friends.

It was like a high school reunion that didn’t have to end. We got to know each other all over again.

Just a week ago, a friend and I got together—and get this—we hadn’t seen each other in fifty years.

Facebook reconnected us, and now that we are both retired, we finally have the time to really catch up.

Over lunch, we shared our stories: the good and the hard, along with the hope we both still hold for a future yet to be seen.

But one thing we both lamented was how Facebook had become a battlefield—a place where differing opinions have shattered lifelong friendships.

We both noticed there are fewer people on Facebook now than when we created our pages back in 2009.

When we started, Facebook was about reconnecting, sharing family photos, swapping funny stories from our younger days, and sometimes asking for prayer when hard things happened.

Now it feels combative.

We have lived long enough to treasure deep friendships—and know they are far too valuable to lose.

My friend shook her head sadly as she thought about someone who no longer speaks to her.

Facebook already did the best thing it could do: it reconnected old friends.

But now, as people quietly slip out the back door to avoid the senseless fighting, the room is starting to feel empty.

The permanent high school reunion is winding down. So, will the last one to leave Facebook turn the lights off?