It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma: if other people use Facebook, they get to see things you don't and have an advantage in some domains. So a lot of people "use" facebook. But if all of the businesses and groups get forced off of Facebook they'll just find another way to make announcments.
Same thing with car ownership: if everyone stopped owning cars, everyone could happily get around with bikes, feet, and public transit. The world would quickly restructure to accommodate it. Sure, some things would be lost (it would be harder to go to remote places to hike, for instance), but other things, like the ease of getting around your immediate neighborhood, or easy access to stores, or polluting the air with less CO2, would balance that out in many ways.
This is clearly wrong.
> Facebook led the way, where Americans spent an average 58 minutes a day on the app.
> Instagram was the second most used service, and it remained most popular among Gen-Z users, who spent almost 53 minutes per day, or 297 hours year;
With DAU of >2b people, I think you're drastically underestimating the scope of damage from a FB withdrawal from the EU.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/06/24/americans...
Having seen how quickly MySpace became irrelevant, I am certain FB is acutely aware of how tenuous the position is as the king of social media. It is no wonder they behave like they do to capture and keep users.
If those services suddenly closed then I wouldn't have to use them!
It's silly, really; in order to contact specific people I must use all of: SMS, Email, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Discord.
> WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
> "But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it."
> OH. WELL, THEN STOP.