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How are they getting that up-to-date info?
A quick Googling of "phones without Facebook" gives lots of options.
This would be Facebook using your friends' data. It happens to be about you, but it's not yours.
I'm not saying people shouldn't care about privacy or take actions to protect it, but I think it's possible to go overboard in believing that nobody is allowed to know anything about you without your permission. There's a lot of public information that's available to anyone simply by being in public.
If you don't want your friends telling people about you, that's on you to tell your friends that. If your friends refuse to keep your existence secret then you'll have to decide whether that's more important to you than having friends.
My phone can't uninstall Facebook.
Then he does have an account on their products.
Probably. Guaranteed you have a shadow account in the very least.