I hope that will make it "OK" career wise to not have facebook. I keep mine around just in case HR needs to "check" it as part of the hiring process. Id love to delete mine but im afraid that would negatively impact my ability to get a job or future "Social Score" (see china)
This one factoid is the thing that keeps me the least interested in having a jobby-job. The fact that it is now de rigeur for some fuckin' HR flack to sniff around your social media feed before they'll offer you a job is fucking horrifying. I can think of nothing so demotivating. The last jobby-job I had, the HR bitch that laid me off tried to friend me on LinkedIn a week later. I can't recall if I actually wrote her back "you're fucking kidding me" or thought better of it. I heard they laid her off six months later.
One of my friends suggested that if I created a Linkdin account and a fake Facebook profile for myself, my job hunt might go a bit easier. I straight up told them that any company that wants to snoop on me as a factor in whether or not I'm employable is a company I don't want to work for.
I'll defend the LinkedIn suggestion. I have a LinkedIn account I keep sort of up to date. I do not have a Facebook account. LinkedIn can show an active interest in the employer or the career path, and that can help convince an employer that a candidate isn't looking at them as a passing fad or just a paycheck. It isn't about having a fake account or even pretending to be interested when one isn't.