Not to make fun of you specifically, but to illustrate bigger truth here...
"I'm a bear and I try to avoid the bear trap company and their sponsored section of the forest. I want to play with my friends, who are bears as well, but also big supporters of the bear trap company and they always want to play in the company's forest. Problem is the company makes you wear a special pair of shoes to enter their forest - the shoes cost a lot of money and they also actively track your position and record your conversations so that hunters can more easily find you (and your loved ones) to target and hurt you all. My friends exclusively buy/wear those shoes regardless of being in the company's forest and they laugh at me because I don't... What should I do so they will like me? The worst part, if I just give up and buy the shoes, it will solve the problem designed by the company to trap me and pit me against friends and I'll be allowed in the forest"
Solution: step one, get new friends.