On the other hand, when I was a teenager, Facebook still had a chronological feed, and at one point didn't even have a feed. Friends posted photos of what they

On the other hand, when I was a teenager, Facebook still had a chronological feed, and at one point didn't even have a feed. Friends posted photos of what they were doing. People didn't really post links, presumably because they didn't show pretty preview thumbnails and summaries. For a kid growing up in a rural area with few opportunities to socialize without driving for miles, Facebook and texting were a genuinely great way for me to have a social life. Of course, with algorithmic feeds, nobody posting original content any more, ads, and blogspam links radicalizing my relatives, Facebook is not longer a good place to socialize. Even when people do post original content, it's hard to see because it gets buried behind oceans of promoted content and ads. But I think I can safely say that an older incarnation of Facebook had a positive mental impact on me.