> Somehow I’ve blown it off and life still works.
If you're not in one of those countries, then I don't think you can speak for what a social life there is.
If I tell people they can only contact me via snail mail or in person (i.e. not have a phone at all), would you find it surprising that I will have a lot less of a social life?
Even 15 years ago I knew people in countries who had a difficult social life because they refused to use SMS - this was before the era of smart phones.
> HTTPs works with email, email works over data networks.
A lot of younger folks do not use email except for signing up for stuff and official work. When I left university a decade ago, many incoming freshmen were quite upset at the requirement to use email.
You can always have some social life, but in certain locales and circles, whether you use these apps or not will affect what type of social life you'll have.
> Acquiesce and nothing changes.
Sorry, but these types of statements are usually of little value, and only sound good. I could easily write:
Resist and nothing changes.
And it will likely be as true (and similarly lacking in entropy) as yours.