It is strange that it is so difficult to be social on a platform that is supposedly "social media". For example, I cannot just follow my friends' feed like I wa

It is strange that it is so difficult to be social on a platform that is supposedly "social media". For example, I cannot just follow my friends' feed like I want, the comment editor is often unusable on mobile phone. I cannot send messages to others without installing the app, etc. Social media facilitates the forming of grassroots movements and this challenges the existing power structures. What Facebook does is curiously well aligned with preventing people from forming grassroots movements. It does not require a conspiracy for this to happen. It may just be that FB gets pressure from some governments to set up policies that effectively curb down grassroots movements, and if it does not comply, it would get pushed out.