i use FB to store and share significant pics and news with friends! my gandson lives here so his mum can look in when she wants!
i find i can easily click no when i stranger 'friend' requests me! i know quite a few people who have been bullied, and indeed i have unfriended my 2 first cousins because of their language! i also never accept gaming requests!
i hope my small list of friends and acquaintances are genuine people, instead of having 600+ unknown folk, like some!
maybe you would enjoy getting what you want out of FB if you actually managed to contact that old friend?
cath x