>If social media makes you unhappy just stop using it.
This answer is far too simplistic for the reality of the situation.
For example, what of the people who never used it (or did stop using it) and their correlated shadow profiles?[0] What is the supposed answer, then: Don't give your contact information to your friends? Don't use the internet, at all, because of Facebook Pixel?[1]
...but the bulk-share of the problem, for me specifically, is that treasure-troves of information on people are the ripest targets for either exploit or out-right theft. See the OPM hack[2] for a principle example of such theft and then look at the Snowden leaks, where he shows that <insert three-lettered agency here> was in major tech companies' bases, killing their do0dz.[3]
The potential problems (and their requisite solutions) aren't as simple as you're trying to paint them to be.
To summarise this long diatribe: I don't pretend to have an answer, to be sure, but to say that stopping Facebook usage is sufficient is disingenuous to the realities of what the company does; especially, since data about you is still being collected anyway.
This answer is far too simplistic for the reality of the situation.
For example, what of the people who never used it (or did stop using it) and their correlated shadow profiles?[0] What is the supposed answer, then: Don't give your contact information to your friends? Don't use the internet, at all, because of Facebook Pixel?[1]
...but the bulk-share of the problem, for me specifically, is that treasure-troves of information on people are the ripest targets for either exploit or out-right theft. See the OPM hack[2] for a principle example of such theft and then look at the Snowden leaks, where he shows that <insert three-lettered agency here> was in major tech companies' bases, killing their do0dz.[3]
The potential problems (and their requisite solutions) aren't as simple as you're trying to paint them to be.
To summarise this long diatribe: I don't pretend to have an answer, to be sure, but to say that stopping Facebook usage is sufficient is disingenuous to the realities of what the company does; especially, since data about you is still being collected anyway.
[0] - https://www.cnet.com/news/shadow-profiles-facebook-has-infor...
[1] - https://www.oberlo.com/blog/facebook-pixel
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...