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@AllysonShaw @PhoenixSerenity "Sinister" is a good word for it! It feels greasy and horrible, especially if you have not been immersing yourself in that environment constantly.

I still go on there sometimes -- lately because I'm trying to promote a friend of mine's contest that he's in. The only way people can vote for him is on Facebook. I hate that!

The whole experience feels abhorrent to me.

I will try scrolling to get information or updates about real people and the ratio is about seven ads/bots/promoted posts to every one post from somebody I actually know.

When FB first started out, and when I was on it originally in 2009, it was amazing. A diary site that a number of people and I wrote on had imploded, and we all made an exodus to Facebook to stay in touch. I would see those people's posts, I would see people that I knew, my best friend and I would chat, those days were glorious!

Now, this is glorious. I just don't have a whole lot of people whom I know in real life here. I'm trying to get them over here.

Instagram started getting as bad a couple of years ago as well. I opened a new account to promote a foster dog that I thought I was going to get, but didn't really populate it because I didn't get the dog.

Since I was only following like six people on the new accounte, everything else I saw was ads. 🤬

I've missed out on information about people dying, funerals, celebrations of life, and also good things like weddings, concerts, etc. (Though I do not go places where there are crowds anymore because of the pandemic.) Yet so rarely do any of those folks remember to reach out and go, Ari might want to do this thing, too!