Same here. I'm also working on deleting my FB account. That one is a lot harder to do because so many of the small businesses and artists that I follow have abandoned maintaining their own blog/website in favor of just using FB.

what a big mistake! What if FB is suddenly turned off? they do not even have their own url.

Well, not everybody thinks about worst case scenarios.

It's really true.

What it really gets to is that there really aren't very good/affordable resources for artists and venues to reach a large audience.

Hiring a local "designer" is often really expensive and you end up with a crappy website that is hard to maintain.

Even using something as "simple" as WordPress can be way too technical for a lot of people.

FB has the benefit of giving them a platform that enables them to quickly connect with their audience.

I see it as a failure of the rest of the internet ecosystem.