Everyone I chose to play with created personal FC for just us and family.

I pay to play this game and I will continue to chose whom I wish to interact with. If that rustles anyone else's jimmies this is a you not me problem.

Shall never forget the time two friends joined this FC because they felt bad. Despite being shy and uncertain about what to say to them. FC leader proceeds to ask them if they wish to farm birds and do savage.. as level 30 sprouts.. Then invites them to wedding and is incredibly insistent about them going. "I will be upset if you do not come! Please show up!" They only wished to play and experience story..

Queue days later multiple attempts to get two women into a discord server on voice chat then behaving strangely when they denied the request multiple times. It made my friends feel awkward as heck.

Can you guess what occurred next? They left and formed their own FC. Gee willikers, I wonder why?

I am not being anti social because I have better things to do then attend weekly events, go to multiple weddings, and have my chat log filled with uWu cat girl nonsense. I am here to complete story, run content, and play a video game. Creating family only or personal FC resolves the problem, and this is acceptable.

Easier solution would be for Square to implement option similar to Discord. Can set self so only those on friends list can whisper you, there you go.