This is something that's been on my mind for the last couple days that I think the rest of you need to consider.
I've used the internet since 1992. Those of you old enough to remember the internet in those days know what this means. It means Lynx. NCSA Mosaic. Gopher. Usenet. FTP. Mail you actually had to download. Netscape and Yahoo didn't exist until '94. For most of the later 90's if you wanted to have a website you had something on Geocities. Tripod. Lycos. Search engines were crap and indexes like Yahoo/ODP were manually curated. If you wanted to talk to people you went on Yahoo chat groups and put up with weirdos, or went on phpBBs and put up power-trippy moderators.
I have seen multiple generations of not just sites, but site technologies and paradigms come and go. Facebook is no different.
It is literally just a website. Nothing more. It can be replaced as casually as typing in a different url.
But muh convenience...
But nothing. I never asked for the internet to exist and was getting along fine without it.
YOU, (Facebook) existed in my universe to the extent that you were useful to me.
No one remembers how truly awesome the web used to be.
Bookmarks worked. You have a link somewhere and chances are it would look the same to the way it looked yesterday, maybe with some extra stuff typed in. People contributed for the love and fun of it, none of this advertising revenue or affiliate codes and when they started making rounds (x10 anyone?) it was resoundingly mocked.
You didn't need a "share" button, you just sent someone the URL via whatever means you wished. Everything was markup, none of this half-working javascript trash on top of everything.
Web-rings. If you found one site focused on a topic you had an easy way of finding most of the other sites on that topic.
Of course half of them were low effort Geocities pages but still. It was distributed.
Yeah you see kids now that make YouTube channels, great right? It's not the worst hobby they could have. But it's all about becoming a rich YouTube star and begging people to subscribe. All the pathetic websites I made about video games as a kid I just wanted someone to look at it. There was no delusion of riches.
Ugh, Javascript, don't get me started. Especially if you work for a big enough company they are always making some ridiculous internal apps where some people mash together a bunch of horrid JS frameworks and the end result is some really pretty that doesn't work at all. It's like I need a wheelbarrow for this project, quit trying to deliver me a dump truck and ending up with a broken one--just give me a wheelbarrow, if I were to put it in a metaphor.
I don't get that.
Back when I was making AMVs it was about hoping you didn't get DMCA'ed by Funimation or the music owner.