A phone call, an email, a Zoom meeting, a Skype meeting, even a letter away for those too far away to meet in person....

There's more to staying connected with family than calling them up, a completely synchronous action that interrupts the lives of both involved just to happen. But it's also not scalable to keep a large family or friend group up to date with whats going on in your world, or catch up with whats going on in theirs by calling every one of them up.

In some circles, Facebook is the only way to communicate and organize events. If you are not there, you are cut out in real life.