You are not forced to use it if that is the case for you.

It would be lovely if that was true, but meta does not care about consent. My android phone came with Facebook pre-installed and I can only remove it over adb, something probably 0.1% of people will bother to learn how to do. They also collect shadow profiles [0] on people who have never made an account

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/768652/what-are-facebook-shadow-pr...