I have a question: before “social” “media” became a thing we* all had been using various irc chats, forums and theme websites of all kinds. There has always be

I have a question: before “social” “media” became a thing we* all had been using various irc chats, forums and theme websites of all kinds. There has always been all kinds of drama, addiction, obsession, love and hatred. But I can’t stop thinking that modern websites just monetize by growing the userbase. This model kills creativity and we are juste cattle for them to feed us with some bullshit. And some random guy nowadays instead of registering a domain name and creating a bunch of html pages to share his thoughts and observations no matter how weird and awkward or enlightening they are, just a small comfort zone in the neverending blizzard of data traffic - this guy will go create a facebook/instagram/youtube/etc. page, get all sorts of rage and ignorance, get kicked by violating some stupid ToC rule of the bespoke “social” “media”. Long gone the times when internet was a place where you could stumble upon something really touching. There are nice places to visit but google favors to show crap on its first couple of search results pages nowadays * Well, by “we” I mean to say people born before 1990 probably