I have found I am terrible at understanding what new technologies are "for". I didn't really get the iphone when it first came out. And I didn't get Facebook.

I have found I am terrible at understanding what new technologies are "for". I didn't really get the iphone when it first came out. And I didn't get Facebook. Then my "aha" moment was that Facebook was like email, but looser - you could post your holiday photos on it, without thinking who to send them to, and your friends could see them and chime in if they were interested. Facebook was post-email. Mind blown! But Facebook is not that thing anymore. It's now a vicious cesspool of outrage-inducing rubbish, peppered with inane vapid memes. Obviously that's what people want, but people want a lot of things that they aren't really proud of. Most of us like a bit of gossip, even if we wouldn't like to be described as a gossiper. I personally find myself unhealthily drawn to stories about anti-vaxxers who are begging for the vaccine from their deathbeds. An unworthy part deep inside me thinks "serve you right". I am not proud of that. Facebook now panders to our lowest, ickiest instincts. And in doing so, it legitimises those icky instincts, and starts us feeling like those instincts aren't so bad. Then our behaviour gets worse. Next thing on the slippery slope, we're marching to the Capitol, part of an armed insurrection. Not a lover of regulation at all, but something has to give. Our society cannot survive bottom dwelling AI leeches like Facebook.