Is it possible to live in the modern world and not use Facebook?

[Chris]

There are some applications that give you no choice; it's the only way to authenticate. So far, I have decided simply to not use any of those. I have a (very) few things tied to Facebook, but most applications want rights to access your friends list, personal information, sometimes photos, and worst of all, the right to post as you *even when you're not logged into the application*. To those, I say "hell no", because they're almost certain to spam my wall and my friends with advertising posts that supposedly came from me, many of which I'd probably be unhappy with.