Facebook is a lot more than what you portray in your comment. A random grandmother who logs into Facebook to see photos of her grandkids could get that same val

Facebook is a lot more than what you portray in your comment. A random grandmother who logs into Facebook to see photos of her grandkids could get that same value from many other sources: Google Photos, Instagram and just plain old e-mail come to mind immediately. I closed my Facebook account this year, precisely because Facebook ended up consuming too much of my time with bullshit I shouldn't be spending time or energy on, instead of providing value you mention. Yes, it does say something about me and how I choose to spend my time and react to content on Facebook, but it also says something about Facebook's algorithms. Whenever people tell me "well, Facebook algorithms simply react to your inputs", I feel that they're forgetting that you could design an infinite number of algorithms that take the same set of inputs and produce different outputs. There are people behind those algorithms. There's human intent behind them, just as there's human intent behind other Facebook's practices people criticize. In short, we're not criticizing Facebook-the-simple-photo-sharing-app, we're criticizing people who made Facebook into a complex machine designed to cash in on some of the darker aspects of human nature.