Evil Facebook.

In recent months, I've read many articles about how evil Facebook is. Evil with our privacy (they keep switching things up so suddenly parts of your profile are no longer private and you have to go back in and make them private, among other things). Thank you to Tim Sears for sharing this blog/article for me to read this morning and get me all up in arms again over Facebook:Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
While some of those points were a bit misguided, many of them have some footing. Read it.
But how do you really quit Facebook? Beyond deleting it. How do you share your pictures with family from afar, aside from a blog since the only way they'll see the stories and pictures is to seek out the blog? We once did this by sending handwritten notes and including pictures. Christmastime newsletters were a popular way as well. On a day-to-day basis though, had I not been on Facebook, I would not have seen my cousin's prom dress. I would not have seen that my step-sister had gotten engaged (we're not very close, so I would not have gotten a call, but would have eventually found out via my dad and step-mom), I would not be able to leave sweet little notes on my boyfriend's page (although I could text or email him...), I couldn't play Scrabble with people all over the country (or world????). I'd miss out on pictures friends post of their new babies, baby announcements, etc.
In this world of Facebook which has sucked every generation in (yes, both of my parents, many of my Aunts and Uncles, and even a Grandparent are on it), how do we leap out of this black hole? How do we go back to handwritten notes? Or even go back to emails? How long has it been since you got a personal email from someone that wasn't a forwarded limerick or warning about a new Nigerian scam?
We all know that Facebook wasn't the first - remember MySpace? The only way I was able to fathom deleting my MySpace account was because of Facebook.
In a place in time where we're going back to the basics - Farmers Markets, cows that eat grass instead of corn, family dinners - how can we make the shift for the world to go back to the basics of communication? The lovingly thought out handwritten note of encouragement, the Christmastime newsletters, talking on the phone instead of texting, meeting for coffee with a good friend. Can we get back to these things? Would people be willing to go back? I'd really like feedback on this one...