While I understand and agree with what you say, this is generally the reason why I never open Facebook, but instead use Pidgin. This is why I don't like YouTube

While I understand and agree with what you say, this is generally the reason why I never open Facebook, but instead use Pidgin. This is why I don't like YouTube, but instead prefer youtube-dl + mplayer. This is why I'm far more likely to read HN comments versus opening a random webpage, or why I cannot multitask in my not-top-of-the-line smartphone. I have an old laptop which 8 years ago worked just fine, and is now being more and more useless; not because it is degrading, rather because programs are degrading around it. It's like the world is devolving in an effort to churn out as much crap as possible. When I open multiple programs which ought to be simple and things start to lag out, I feel a bit disrespected by developers which to avoid any kind of effort took it out on me cutting out what I could potentially do.