Social Networking for families?

So I'm perusing face-book the other day and see that a good friend of mine has a link to family link, I click it and see this great list with pictures of many if not all of his extended family. I think wow that's nice. So I join and start adding family members and of course it starts suggesting possible relatives, My family begin receiving confirmation requests and on and on. Tonight I started building my family tree, and yes it is a handy little way to keep track and stay in-touch with distant relatives. But I'm also stuck wondering whats wrong with us that we find a social networking site useful for keeping up with relatives. These used to be the people we new best and saw on a weekly basis at great grandma's for Sunday dinner. The people that you could count on most for help with everything from moving to buying a car or house or help with house repairs. Anymore I have to admit that I don't even do a good job of keeping up with the relatives that live right here in the same town with me. I have cousins living in the same county that I haven't seen in 5 years, shoot I might have seen them and not recognized them at that rate. And count on them for help? pfff! It's like pulling teeth to get a little help with simple repairs from my own father. Not that I'm complaining we don't really work well together any way. Love my dad but we're too much alike, all perfectionist, to work together. Sad to say the only one that can really count on is my brother but we don't exactly get along he has a hot temper but we really do work well together. There's an epiphany for you! Of all the my friend and relatives my brother is about the only one I can count on for help, especially with any work, even though we don't really get along all that well.

What does it all mean? Social networking for families? Counting the most on the person you don't get along with?