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They've definitely evolved from their original charter as a "social network", where I'd interact with friends over content we ourselves put on the site. Now I f
by remarkEon 10y ago
They've definitely evolved from their original charter as a "social network", where I'd interact with friends over content we ourselves put on the site. Now I feel like my feed is (was) 95% ads plus linked and shared news articles and then maybe 5% posts from friends. People still interacted with each other, but it was definitely less organic like you said and more banter about things external to your personal relationships. I don't like Facebook, I probably never did, and I finally got my Spotify login linked to my email instead of my Facebook account so I'm done with the site. Over the last year and a half I realized it's evolved into a giant surveillance vector and just got too creepy.
All that said, no I don't think it's dying for two reasons: 1) young people today (whatever we're calling the generation that comes after millennials) seem to be unconcerned with "oversharing" and appear to derive some kind of dopamine hit from it. So the things that come across as creepy to me probably don't affect that generation in the same way. 2) I could be wrong, but Facebook does also appear to be attempting to diversify their business. They've done this in the past, and I don't see too much reason to panic right now (if I were an investor that is).
Honestly, I would indeed prefer that it died. I think it makes people unhappy, harms relationships, and ends up being a replacement for reality for a lot of people - and I was only a once-every-few-days kind of guy. Some of my friends compulsively use that thing, even if they're actually out with real people not the manufactured online personae on display in your "profile."