I've quit Facebook a few times in annoyance over privacy issues etc
but gone back for the same reasons as you - too many people I want to be in touch with use it as their main method of keeping in touch with friends / family.

Last night (for example) I caught up with the B3tan Superpowerless and I wouldn't have known he was in town if he hadn't posted on FB something about it.
( rob Hello, I'm a board sig., Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:54, Reply)