OrdinaryFriend

Your people,
portable.

Somewhere along the way, social media broke its promise. Instead of bringing us closer, it fractured our communities and left us more isolated than before. We think it's time to build something better.

First, get your Facebook data

1
Go to Facebook → Settings → Your Facebook Information
2
Click Download Your Information → Request a Download
3
Choose JSON format, select Friends, Messages, Groups, Posts
4
Facebook emails you a ZIP — come back and upload it here
Drop your Facebook ZIP here
Or click to browse  ·  Your data never leaves your browser

How it works

From Facebook's archive
to your real social graph

01

Map your real relationships

Not your friends list. Who you actually talk to, comment with, and show up for.

02

Recover contact info

Find the emails and phone numbers Facebook has been sitting on — they belong to you.

03

Identify your communities

See which groups are actually alive vs. dead weight. Know what's worth rebuilding.

04

Move together

Get a personalized kit to invite your real people to whatever comes next.

Why we exist

Facebook didn't just build a product.
They built a dependency.

They made it so leaving meant losing — your photos, your groups, your people. That wasn't an accident. It was the architecture.

The verdicts this week confirmed what most of us already felt: these platforms were built to hook us, not to help us.

OrdinaryFriend starts with a simple belief: your friendships belong to you. Not to an algorithm. Not to a company that profits from your loneliness. To you.

What comes next

A social space you actually own

The export tool is just the beginning. We're building something different — a platform where groups are owned by their members, not by us.

Groups you own

Create or join a group and you're a member, not a product. No algorithm. No ads. The group belongs to the people in it.

Built for local

Your neighborhood, your school, your marina, your block. Real community starts close to home.

No engagement traps

No infinite scroll. No notifications engineered to create anxiety. A feed that ends. A space that respects your time.

Portable forever

Your data exports completely, any time, in open formats. We will never hold your social graph hostage.

Join the waitlist and shape what we build.