The benefit of the internet is that for niche subjects you can always find friends. The stupid part of social media is that many of those niche groups ended up using facebook/twitter/etc as a SSO/single place to discuss those things. But you don't need to - that niche can still exist.
I use forums, email and IRC for those ends, so the internet still remains useful for me, for now.
I use forums, email and IRC for those ends, so the internet still remains useful for me, for now.