Bullshit. I have never used facebook and I have never had an issue where I needed to.

If you are selling second hand, use a different platform. No one is making you use marketplace.

There are online portals, calendars, and even emails that notify parents of students and events.

You can call you friends and find out how they are doing. You can also email to keep in touch. Stop posting everything about yourself and the internet and you should be telling your friends the same.

You are just making excuses as to why you need it in your life and I have never had to use it for anything since its inception.

Right, when you apply for jobs, they want socials and indeeds and this and that, when you meet people they want to add you on Facebook. These are "private" companies, but because they are natural monopolies, they essentially become quasi-required parts of being able to function normally within society.

The right way to deal with this is to regulate the fuck out of the natural monopolies, but rich elitists who own the government by proxy and big surveillance tech have this symbiotic relationship where big tech surveils and secretly data mines the public (to blacklist and exclude potential risks to the system and monitor those people) and so it won't happen.

Republicans, hurt most by the blacklisting initially, were most likely to regulate big tech, ironically, but now money and ass-kissing of Republican leaders has changed the game and no one will fucking regulate them. All politicians who allow this to happen are either weak or whores, being paid to just perform a role of politician.

Yeah. Don't care. Won't use it. It's that easy.

Same for Instagram. Not doing something is easy.