BBSes weren't collecting psychological profiles, facial recognition data, credit card transaction histories, public records, etc.. to build profiles with which

BBSes weren't collecting psychological profiles, facial recognition data, credit card transaction histories, public records, etc.. to build profiles with which to manipulate their users on a mass scale. BBSes didn't encourage users to share information about their friends and family who weren't on those BBSes with them. BBSes didn't follow their users around on other BBSes and document everything they did or said on them. BBSes didn't track their users' physical locations 24/7. They also didn't have psychologists on staff helping them to figure out how to make their services as addictive as possible by exploiting various flaws in human psychology. Nobody ever said "if I stop using this BBS I'll lose contact with my friends and family". Beyond the very basic fact that people sometimes communicated with each other over BBSes, there is absolutely no comparison between them and what is happening right now.