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If you allow people to freely post messages, it will just devolve into the same sort of facebook/twitter/tiktok/instagram toxicity. Big companies will still ove
by grumple 3y ago
If you allow people to freely post messages, it will just devolve into the same sort of facebook/twitter/tiktok/instagram toxicity. Big companies will still overwhelm you with ads on the platform.
Facebook was great for a few things when it started and was exclusive to college students, like:
1) connecting with new friends at college - it's still pretty good for this as far as I know, as long as you share exactly the same sociopolitical beliefs as the people you befriend (no longer on it).
2) organizing events (usually parties, but also dorm events or others for school) - it stopped being great after the first 2 years, when police across the country started using it to shut down parties. The culture around parties also changed. Now it's not great because a lot of people no longer use fb, and because they made changes to make it harder to actually use this feature effectively.
3) documenting how you met someone - they removed this feature around 2006 or so, there's no replacement for it on any platform that I'm aware of.
4) sharing photos with friends - Instagram is better for this. Nobody wants to look through a whole album of poorly taken photos anymore. Also normal people learned that having a ton of photos of you online could be a bad thing.