“Facebook Friends” tells the story of coming to terms with a formative relationship falling apart, keeping in touch with the other person only through social media, such as Facebook. Even though the subject was someone that NIKI knew and loved deeply, she no longer knows what goes on in his life other than what he posts, and she wonders if there’s anything left in store for them.

In an interview with The Forty-Five, NIKI explains that this was supposed to be the last video posted to her YouTube channel, “nzee24”, before archiving her entire catalogue and debuting as NIKI with record label 88rising:

“Facebook Friends” was the very last “Nicole Zefanya” video that I never published. It was right there—it had been uploaded, and all I had to do was hit “Publish”, and I didn’t do it. I can’t remember why, I think I truly was just like, “I’m going to publish this when I get home,” and then I just never did. So that was the last “Nicole Zefanya” video before I debuted as NIKI. It’s so wild.

Since the album’s first half consists of songs NIKI wrote more recently, looking back on her first love, and the second half contains songs written as a teenager and published to YouTube, it is fitting that “Facebook Friends” was the song that bridged the two halves.