Do others find facebook as depressing as i do?

Facebook -- Depressing by design or am I being abnormal in my reaction to it!

When I go out on facebook and I see the "friends" lists of others on my limited friends list, I am irrationally annoyed that I feel guilty because I have NO DESIRE to befriend or hear about people I went to high school with. Unless they are in a position to have power over or involvement with my son who is a student at the high school I went to and has contact with teachers in the school that I went to school with, I just don't want them knowing anything about me or thinking about me or even knowing that I still live around here. I do have some select parents are on my list that I went to high school with because they have a bearing on my current life as a fellow parent in the school system.

I find facebook extremely depressing and annoying because it makes me think that I should FEEL something for people that I've never FELT. Even when I knew them, it was all proximity-based. But everyone else just seems so incredibly sappy and nostalgic over that bloodsport that was high school in the 80s! I was friendly enough and had "friends" that I could hang with, but mostly I've always known at every point in my life that the people I was around were basically temporary and eventually life would get in the way of continued contact. Once I got married and had a kid, I was so relieved not to have to be out there looking for people to "pal around with" so I could look like I was the same as everyone else!

I like facebook for the political and news stuff, but I really miss the anonymity of the old "message board" format where you could have an alias and no one had to know how you really felt about things. It always makes everything so much harder when the people in your physical life know what you really think!