RE: There's a blank page for every success story that can be, write your own...
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Unlike you, I still keep my FB handy to stay connected with people I care about.
2 years ago used a Chrome extension to mass unfollow all pages and people, then carefully curated my feed to follow only those things I truly care about. But recently, FB has been showing me post and people suggestions and it's pestering me tbh.
The one thing I despise about socmed is THE Algorithm. Beyond invading our privacy and subjecting us to psychological evaluations without consent, it manipulates us into forming habits. Socmed platforms are designed to exploit dopamine hits, steering us toward content that keeps us hooked and nudging us toward "buying" things—both literal and figuratively...
We'd be compelled to buy a car because a friend we often stalk has it. Or we buy into lies and envy because social media promotes them.
They're making money from our data, without us getting paid for it. Worse, we're being systematically exposed to things that will make us feel small, that way we buy things that will make us feel bigger.
It's a troubling cycle where our personal information is monetized, and our emotional vulnerabilities are exploited for profit. And we little tiny-brained minions only see everyone as users and friends, but really... only a handful of people are real friends. And those are the ones that we really connect with offline.
I subscribe entirely to everything you wrote. I had a post about four years ago which tackled social media from this perspective.