The largesr draw about a social media is who's on it. I can't tell you how many invites to things I miss for not being on social media. Anyone outside of my immediate friend group simply makes plans on Facebook and goes through their friends list to invite people and wont remember some one they maybe see every other month especially among the dozens of names they already looked through to invite. Some peopel are fine sacrificing social life for some small protest that has no effect on Facebook's MAUs and profit, and other's would rather not isolate for a fight they can't win.
Might be depending where you live. I never had issues finding all the parties and having a large network of friends without Meta apps.
I was born before computers were really a thing though, so maybe that has an effect on this. Now I don't even realize without reading these threads that I miss something. Life is just fine without…