...(apart from reacquainting me with people I thought I'd happily succeeded in losing touch with) is to remind me that I've lost touch with people I used to be good friends with and make me feel guilty that I'm not up for hanging out with them anymore...
If you were happily out of touch with them, you shouldn't have reacquainted with them on facebook (it takes a request AND an accept to become friends). I've turned down a lot of requests from people who I have nothing in common with, or deleted them after the fact when I was reminded how fucking annoying they were based on reading updates about their life.
I've certainly linked up with people more because of FB than I would have without it. I met up with a middle school / university friend just last week when he posted on Facebook that he would be in DC, we met up for lunch and shared the last year or two of our lives. Without him randomly acclaiming his future whereabouts on FB and me reading them on FB, would we have thought to call each other and meet up? He might not even know that I'm living in DC now because I moved fairly recently. I might not know he's coming to DC because we don't talk much.
Plus it's also great to put a Face to people's names or pu a name to people's faces when you only know one or the other. This happens to me a lot meeting new people in my classes. I frequently talk to someone one time and forgot who they hell they were.
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Pour the wine, hold the grind, quarter to nine, let's go.