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.
Facebook the site is a URL, Facebook the corporation is more useful as a propaganda tool at this point due to how echo-chambers work. It'll be interesting to see how the next gen use the internet precisely because big sites like Facebook are falling out of favor for more instant messaging services like Discord and we might even go back to a 90's sort of paradigm, where search engines are curated by companies so they're useless, you talk over IM instead of Facebook or Reddit because you can't talk there for being censored. Maybe that's the direction the internet is headed in.