>Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of peopl

>Early social media (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) was a free alternative to paying someone to run, patch, and scale your own website/blog. It gave a lot of people opportunity to create their own communities and engage with them in a more convenient and immediate way than blogs or forums. Exactly, it brought the complexity down dramatically for discovering and connecting with people online. >I am removing my social media posts, closing accounts, and going back to a website with a blog. Instagram, Twitter, and the rest of them are the new MySpace near its end days, they can run on fake accounts and bullshit content for a while, but advertisers will eventually learn that the audiences have gone elsewhere. I think a good idea would be; if somebody could make vanilla Facebook which was meant to connect you with friends and family but more privacy focused. Everything you do on Facebook is logged and fed into some kind of social graph and algorithm and eventually sold to advertisers. We already have more streamlined and privacy focused email and search engine alternatives but we don't have a private social network equivalent of Facebook. I think paying a few bucks for a monthly subscription in exchange for smaller, more secure and privacy focused version of Facebook wouldn't be a problem for people who want to stay private and off the Big Tech's grid.