One issue now is many social groups and businesses primarily communicate through Facebook. I was part of a subreddit that was basically dead, gaining no users o

One issue now is many social groups and businesses primarily communicate through Facebook. I was part of a subreddit that was basically dead, gaining no users only around 30 active people. The mod decided to create a Facebook group instead, that group quickly ballooned to 1,000 members and now has over 7,000, this is for a single metropolitan area. The subreddit still exists but has very little activity or useful information. If you want to be a part of that community Facebook is pretty much your only choice. I also follow a number of small business in a certain industry, and I would say 100% of them have Facebook accounts, 90% have websites, 50% have decent/good websites, 10% actually update and post news to their website. A good amount use Twitter & Instagram, but all post events, news, promotions, etc.. on Facebook. If you want to follow these businesses, you have to use Facebook to do so.