You are not forced to use it if that is the case for you.
Even if you don't use it, those little Facebook icons in most websites are tracking you.
They intentionally shown weight loss adds to teenagers whose posts indicated they have low self confidence.
They knowingly facilitated genocide and gave zero shits.
They intentionally manipulate elections for the far right.
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...