<i>&gt;via an optional social media service.</i><p>Owning a car is &#x27;optional&#x27; in the same sense. In that in many places in the U.S it <i>isn&#x27;t</i> optional, unless you&#x27;re self-employed. Otherwise, you&#x27;re going to be <i>unemployed</i>. There is a large trade off for making the choice.<p>Any people who willingly opt out of social media (<i>especially</i> Facebook) risk alienating themselves from friends and family entirely. Seen as &quot;weird&quot; for opting out of having a FB&#x2F;refusing to use it entirely. Even weirder if you cite &quot;privacy concerns&quot; as your reasoning for not having it.<p>There is far too much social pressure for most people to put up with not having one. Unless they already lead healthy social lives or are socially reclusive enough that social pressure is lost entirely on them.<p>Source: Living life without Facebook