I am not saying I am a complete control freak, but I like to have a moderate amount of it.  I do, however want as much control over my websites and it's content.  I will NOT give up my url for a FB page.  As you mentioned it ruined one website.  I am not about to go in that direction.
Yes, I use Gmail and Yahoo mail for almost every email I send and receive, but this is for economical purposes.  The day will come when I have that too.