When I first heard about facebook almost 10 years ago, I didn't really care for it much. I was quite young and we didn't have any kind of social media. It is really important to remember the website functioned a lot different than it does today. To be honest, the only reason I went on there is to look at pictures of girls I knew, you know girls you fell in love with and dreaming looking at their profile pic..
Today
Today facebook is something completely different. I have heard they noticed the changes themselves as well but I think they are too late. The main problem with facebook in my opinion is that, nobody really shares anything personal anymore and with that, it is no longer a social media platform.
What is being shared instead, is content of other people, with the notion that you might like to watch this as well, and an amazing amount of share &like giveaways, ads and other garbage. I want to see what my friends are doing, posting beautiful pictures or sharing interesting stories themselves. And yes, if sometimes they run into an actual funny video by a good comedian, or there is an issue at hand, please share it as well. Yet scrolling through my facebook feed I notice I'm interested in less than 10% of what is showing up.
Get New Friends
Most people will come with the idea: get new friends bud! Your friends are the issue, they are sharing the bs. Yes maybe this is true, however I do not think it's the friends, as they are from all sorts of life, from many different ages and countries. I feel it is the way we see facebook now, as a platform to share things we like, and hope that others like as well.
Problem
For me the main issue is, why share a video or picture, if I can do so on instagram? Why write a small story if I can do it on steemit or a blog website where people actually care about what I write. Why share a video, if nobody is going to watch it anyway, and if they do, who cares? May as well share it privately to the 2 people I think will absolutely love that video.
Facebook is Dead
Facebook is actually dead, the only real users are people that used to send around these annoying chain-emails and jokes via email, that's right, the 50 and 60 year olds that just discovered facebook are raving, maybe some 40 year olds, but all of the kids have moved on. I just use messenger and my business facebook page and never look at my feed, there's nothing to find there anyway. If it wasn't for my business page, and I may soon stop using that as well because I hardly see any progress made there, I would just delete my facebook account and stay on Instagram only, it is more streamlined and offers everything I need.
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