[midnightGhost]

Facebook lost at being a social media platform long ago with serving ads and trying to be a social media platform and news media platform at the same time. It just does not work.

That seems to be the big issue with people trying to create a social platform. You can't have a social platform that also has ads and news going around like wildfire. Ads ruin the experience and make it feel less "social" and news well just look at Facebook and Twitter and what news sharing has done there.

People want to be able to chat and have a feed among their friends and family. Take out all the business, celebrity pages and all other pages. Just have a friends list, chat and a feed.

I look back on the AIM days and how simple it was. It was just a friends list, chats and chatrooms based on topics from what I can remember. There weren't any algorithms altering anything. There wasn't all this extra stuff like following or friending businesses, magazines/newspapers, celebrities or anything else.

I have no idea why a social platform today needs all this extra garbage like businesses, celebs etc that has nothing to do with being a social platform. I think at that point it just becomes a hub for information and not a place to socialize, chat and share among your friends and family.