Sigh Facebook

The only reason I logged onto Facebook is that I got an email inviting me to see a message from an old friend. I figured it might be important, so I logged on, only to find that there is no such message! Or maybe there is, but it's so old that it doesn't display anymore? I don't know.

What there needs to be is like a "public option" social network where you can simply maintain a presence and your old friends can contact you. No advertising, no profits, no tracking. Just a way to find someone who you used to know and then reconnect on other media (why not email?).