Lots of companies that you've never used collect data on you. Look at the amount of junk mail you receive from people you've never done business with, and all o

Lots of companies that you've never used collect data on you. Look at the amount of junk mail you receive from people you've never done business with, and all of them have data on you. This part isn't fixable. But by having an FB account and actively using the service, you become part of the problem. FB would not have nearly the market value that they do if no one used their product. Actually, they would have zero value. Is there something in your life that requires FB so badly that you're willing to continue being their product? No, there isn't. You can still phone your friends. You can still text your family. There are plenty of other methods of communication without FB. FB is not a communications tool, though they pitch themselves that way. They are a data gathering and advertising tool. If you agree to be part of that, that's on you.