While their mission of connecting people sounds nice on paper, they have shown over and over that they place profit first, which is not necessarily wrong for a

While their mission of connecting people sounds nice on paper, they have shown over and over that they place profit first, which is not necessarily wrong for a corporation, but this incentives engagement over connection. We've seen that as Facebook grew bigger and the engagement algorithms took over, that the worst of humanity is brought out. Despite there being genuine connection and overall improvement to people's lives happening on FB; if not people wouldn't be using it, but extremism, addiction and hate have become staples of the platform at large. Frankly, I don't trust FB to fix these issues so I am immediately pessimistic about Meta, but the reality very well may be that us humans enjoy extremism content, don't mind digital addictions, and feed off hate and FB just brings out the raw truth in us. Overall, I think FB needs a different business model other than advertising off engagement if they want to turn the page and appeal to the better parts of people.