Nowadays I just check my notifications for my groups on Facebook to see if I'm missing an event - I don't scroll through the feed at all. Too many ads. I don't post like I did years ago. It all seems really fake. It's interesting to see young people are less into it - my 20 year old son couldn't give a shit about it, despite what older people say i.e 'they are always on facebook' - bollocks are they! Well I hope not.

I think it's so obvious - the data is more important than the product itself. And data drives industry. If you don't see that, you really are a frog in a slowly heating pond. Ten years ago, it was the wild west and that was fucking great. You could read an independent review on a film just by searching, now you have to DIG for an independent review. And people are too lazy to dig. Hell, facebook and other data gatherers RELY on people's laziness!

Your friend - now they are the interesting folk I want to connect with on steemit. Instagram USED to be like that too, but I never meet people on there anymore - it's all ads. The old friends I met on there, I still have, but it's been a long while since I've met anyone interesting and not trying to push an agenda or make a buck. Yeah, steemit is harder - i have no idea how to do anything on here but it seems there's reward in it somewhere, not financially, but something else. I've definately had more good, interesting conversations with interesting folk on here than I have on my other social networks in some time, and though I dont get many views yet, I reckon people here are more interested too - facebook is just bored scrolling and people's FOMO.

I hope that answers some of your questions?