At least in Germany this role of keeping up to date about events among family and friends seems to have moved to WhatsApp. You still get all the baby- and vacation-pictures, but without the propaganda-, 'you might like'- and advertisement-postings Facebook is bombarding you with. Personally I have moved off Facebook since end 2016 and was one of the last holdouts, most of my family, and friends from the 'real world' don't have an Facebook account or have left their account idle since long before that.

PS: the irony is of course that WhatsApp is owned by Facebook ;)