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When Facebook first launched and was only available on certain campuses, it had an intimate and safe feeling. It was used primarily to share experiences with fr
by throwawaysea 6y ago
When Facebook first launched and was only available on certain campuses, it had an intimate and safe feeling. It was used primarily to share experiences with friends. The site was simple and compact. Feeds had a high signal to noise ratio, and it was about personal connection rather than political warfare. Somehow, unless they take on a content policy that bans news/politics/etc, I doubt they can get back to that place from where society is today. Even if the software was exactly the same as it was, we have changed and we have been changed in large part by social media these last 15 years.
- kube-system 6y agoA ban on political content won’t make fb what it was before. The toxic political content is a symptom of the problem, not a cause. The community is the difference. Social bubbles on fb are now huge, and include people with wildly varying ideas for what they want to get out of social media. People naturally segregate different aspects of their social life in their real-world interactions, but that nuance is completely lost on fb.