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Any one refusing to use ANY social media probably has issues…

And this is where we went wrong. Why should it be the expected default, to share your private data with some corportation doing god knows what with it, among other things selling it to third companies that you do not know, which then target you with political advertising aimed at undermining democracy in your country?

Those acting like this is normal, would give someone who refuses to have a cell phone weird looks or what about any phone at all?

This is entirely different. The issue with social media is not, that it provides a means to reach you. The issue is that you sell all your private data, that includes and allows for information on highly sensitive topics such as your sexual orientation and physical and mental health. Having a phone number provides none of this. The worst issues with phones is scam calls targeting elders on landlines. And how do they do that? because some other company aggregated the data and sold it, so the scammers can target postal codes with higher rates of old and vulnerable people.

So all in all this also sounds like a particularly american problem, where little culture around data protection and a higher demand for public exposure exists and people are used to prostitution of their values, principles and civil rights.