I'm not a social media guy. Like you I use youtube, but it is mostly for music listening. Yeah I have a gmail account but am trying to make the switch to Proton mail. I have/had a facebook account when it first came out, did not like it still do not like it and still do not use it.

I got real annoyed with the likes of ICQ and one other instant message type system way way back in the day, and have never since signed up for another instant type message. people can send a letter, send an email, or make a phone call, and since very few have any of that information I am not being ping ponged every 12 minutes.

I still think it was an internal scrub thing, and it looks like it was an internal error and not an outside DDoS type attack, so I think no one will ever know how much purging went on.