You do realize that this whole thing just proved me right. They made a change, it caused a stink, they changed it back.
100% abstinence from FB is silly for anyone that has a message to get out. There’s 600 million users, it’s literally the largest audience in the world, 2 entire US populations.
You would be right, except when you are not.
How long does it take a rogue interface to extract a database? How fast does this "stink loop" you describe take to resolve itself?
As long as the former can happen in seconds and the latter takes days, it's not a meaningful protection.
Anyway we can disagree to degrees on that. It's no big deal.
But your larger assumption is more interesting. Just because FB has 600 million users does not mean it's a productive target just waiting to be freeperized.
Certainly there are potential "skulls full of mush" there which might be exposed to conservatism, but in my humble opinion, this page illustrates why using FB to promote conservatism to these 600 million is absurd.
It's like "Avatar does historical biography."