This is something that's been on my mind for the last couple days that I think the rest of you need to consider.
I've used the internet since 1992. Those of you old enough to remember the internet in those days know what this means. It means Lynx. NCSA Mosaic. Gopher. Usenet. FTP. Mail you actually had to download. Netscape and Yahoo didn't exist until '94. For most of the later 90's if you wanted to have a website you had something on Geocities. Tripod. Lycos. Search engines were crap and indexes like Yahoo/ODP were manually curated. If you wanted to talk to people you went on Yahoo chat groups and put up with weirdos, or went on phpBBs and put up power-trippy moderators.
I have seen multiple generations of not just sites, but site technologies and paradigms come and go. Facebook is no different.
It is literally just a website. Nothing more. It can be replaced as casually as typing in a different url.
But muh convenience...
But nothing. I never asked for the internet to exist and was getting along fine without it.
YOU, (Facebook) existed in my universe to the extent that you were useful to me.
I wouldn't even go as far to say Facebook was ever useful to me. I've got to be one of the most pathetic looking accounts around since I didn't really use it and would only accept friend requests from actual friends that I already talked to with more traditional forms of communication and I didn't allow family at all.
Unless they decide to kill the Internet, I'm not too worried about getting what I want from it. They won't disconnect it from the world as that would rile up their base and the globalists. People in China have figured out how to get past the "Great Firewall." I'm perfectly fine with it going back to the way it used to be even if it was just for myself. I liked AIM and ICQ more than texting anyway.
I've been looking into these new de-centralized protocols like Matrix for chat and LBRY for video and it all looks fun and exciting to me. I guess it's not as friendly to the non-techy people that want a simple little app and account to download that of course they make their profile their full name and post way too much information about themselves on.