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Last Night I finally stabbed the final nail in the coffin of Mark Fuckerberg's nightmare Social Media platform, Fakebook (Facebook). This page deals with all the different "platforms" out there, and my disdain for them (and why). And Why you might even have a LEGITKMATE use for them (and why you probably don't have one).
I was one of those people who got to ride the wave of Social Media coming in as Friendster was on it's way out, MySpace and Facebook were just starting, YouTube and Google + were a thing, a friend of mine from High SChool had a site called "Anotherprofile.com", and I was still authoring my own HTML Websites on Geocities.com when they were owned by Yahoo!. When it started, somehow, like all the other shit, I somewhat predicted where this crap was going after awhile.
The problem with social media is it's a CENTRALIZED set of platforms on what is supposed to be a worldwide DE-CENTRALIZED network for the free exchange of information. As I have gotten older, and used the internet more and more, and watched it evolve, the more I have a distaste and disdain for these platforms, and most especially, how they were used. So let's start with a case study of various Centralized Platforms that I have used, been a part of, and dealt with, with the truth behind them exposed...
| PLATFORM
| SCREENSHOT
| USEFUL FOR?
| WHY IT SUCKS
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| LiveJournal
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| A part of the "Blogger" phase of "Social Media", LiveJournal was a common place for the "Hot Topic Goth" crowd to convene and talk about their mundane life experiences among friends (not to mention the rest of the internet). It had a nice little widget for WIndows that probably also worked well on Wine, and was kinda' fun, as long as nobody was stirring up useless Drama (which always happens once the Lamestream starts using the platform). I guess you could have started a useful blog there too, and some people did, but it seems most of them graduated to places like Blogger - whcih seem more legitimate and a bit more secure. It might be a decent place to "Vent" so as long as your "vents" fit your friends and audience, and don't piss them off.
| Security is the first part. Both on the part of the site (it was the 2000s) and on the part of the USERS more importantly (I include myself in this one), whether talking about everyone's relationships, including your own, openly as a SuicideGirl Wannabe, or taking a wrecking ball to your whole band because you're tired of being ignored or shit on with the loop-button pressed, LiveJournal was really just a dumping ground for drama, and thinly veiled insults, doxxing other members for the purpsoe of creating turmoil in their personal lives. LiveJournal was basically where catty bitches and frustrated Incels went to post their stupid rants about stupid shit, most of which had a teenage-early twenties slant. So it's little wonder it's not popular anymore. And "good riddance" I say.
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| MySpace
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| MySpace was the first major social media site, run by a cool cat named "Tom" who was everyone's friend, and actually was a class act - well I'll be....there actually was a "tech bro" who did not act like a shitty celebrity. Seriously, Zuckerberg and Musk could learn a thing or two from Tom. You could massively edit your page to suit whatever or however you wanted to present yourself, and the purposes were open. Most of the ladies I knew were listening to music and chatting with friends, famous people would occasionally have some pretty chill AMA stuff going on, guys like me who were musicians would advertise our music skills and show our musicality on these pages with our own curated, self-made music.
| I honestly don't know? MySpace was awesome. I never had any problems there, minor drama at most (mostly my drunk bass player), and nobody really targeted me that was an issue. Any advertising they had was reasonable (and easily blocked by Firefox), the quizzes were fun, and it was awesome to be able to make a Social Media profile the way I would like it done, and not determined by some curly haired rich guy trying to join Harvard's key club for his "excellent coding". Seriously, and Tom never turned up in the news, caused a stir at political events, got tied up in anything with a orange man, or caused any problems. Actually, when he sold MySpace, he did what any self-respecting human would do with millions or billions of dollars - take a damn vacation and have some fun. Tom is honestly the only tech billionaire that I actually have respect for.
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| Facebook
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| Facebook is of course the (in)famous social media to end all social media platforms developed in the mid 2000's for Harvard University by Mark Zuckerberg. WHo at first, I had some respect for, because he developed the platform himself, unlike most Tech Bros (ie Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs), he actually did the groundwork. Facebook once upon a time was great, when people were civil, and it was a fun place free of political horseshit. Somewhere around 2016, the place turned into a dumpster fire full of old Boomers, and Gen X zealots spreading misinformation from all sides of the po0litical spectrum, inciting enmity and hatred. In the middle of it, it also once was a great place for having a band, like Myspace, because you could post upcoming gigs and interact with fans. Problem is, the platform has gotten too crowded now, and unless you are a multi-million dollar touring act with a legacy the size of Egypt, then you probably are not getting the attention there you deserve.
| What sucks is Facebook - like everything else on the internet now - tries to be EVERYTHING. Whatever happened to doing one thing well. Myspace was a great artist/musician place to hang because the features were strictly catering to those outlets. Facebook is the new Live Journal. Basically, all you do is stir up drama there, EVERYONE. And that's why I quit YESTERDAY (3/28/2025), because I tried every fucking tactic in the book to make that site useful after hitting "permanantley delete" about 5 times in the last five years. I hope they honor that this time. Every other time I'd start getting hits later, which is one reason I don't trust the modern internet as much. But how it's like LiveJournal circa, oh say, 2003, is that it's like the Hot Topic Goth population got Grandma and Gramps involved, and their aunts and uncles, and they're all there, spying on you, all day long, and then anything you say that's mildly angry, inflammatory, critical, or otherwise, considered "distasteful" (which let's be honest, all humans are distasteful in 2025 - it's just the goddamn truth), you'll find yourself getting raked over the coals in the background over and over again. So much he-said-she-said bullshit, I'm surprised Auntie hasn't started wearing spiked chokers and dying her hair purple yet! Seriously, the level of immaturity and sutpidity on Facebook has me wondering how the hell it's survived all these years. SO DON'T GO THERE DUDE/DUDETTE!
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| Instagram
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| Instagram, now owned by "Meta" - who owns fake...er I mean Facebook, was a great platform to be on before the ads, cringiness, and the OnlyFans whores. Mine is still just basically you peering through my garage door at whatever the hell I'm working on. THat's what it's great for, showing off your own work. It's like an Etsy without needing to get a Tax ID and create a webstore! You can show people a little bit on how to make cool shit, and people can enjoy said cool shit. Play guitar? Great advertising for your music? Build Guitars? That's great too. That's what Instagram is great for, plus there's some pretty good comedy there (Hey Pooks, that weird guy who makes all the "Goblin Music"...well, there's two of them, Radicious, and the other guy who does weird things with instruments, and all the "oddly satisfying" things where they are cutting up bars of soap and rubber hand grippers...and of course all the crazy AI Brainrot that's something straight out of other people's nightmares, and my own personal bizzare adventures I go on when I'm asleep. So really, there's a lot more in Instagram that's great. Probably because it's a lot harder to spread misinformation and cause dramatic disturbances when 70-90% of the content is just pictures with hash tags.
| What sucks about instagram is since the ads came about, and OnlyFans decided to become a second rater to PornHub instead of a pay-to-play YouTube, is the algorithm constantly tries to triangulate you with advertisements, and of course a good chunk of the advertisers are the OF chicks. I of course, was totally unaware that this was going on. Early on, it was just me, guitars, and people cutting weird stuff with knives that were interesting. Then one day I guess the algorithm had a cute chick in a dress on the page, and I stopped for more than a second or two, and well, now it's BBW OnlyFrees! Well, it comes and goes. Sometimes I get some months of freedom...I think Kurt Cobain and Scott Smith are haunting the Algorithm and helping me out, since it seems Loverboy and Nirvana take over during those times. Either that or Krist and Loverboy are up to stuff periodically and that saves me.
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| I.G. Threads
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| Ah yes, so Instagram decided to try and make a REDDIT Competitor. And of course, I gave it a shot, and it was fine for a month.....THEEEEN the usual muckety muck riff-raff showed up. Honestly, like REDDIT, I find this to be loserville and not very useful for much. I used it for about a month, then I got rid of it.
| I really don't know what the use of these sorts of platforms are once the lamestream gets their hands on them. One minute it's a sea of intelligence, then people figure out how to get on it, and it wrecks everything. Same story, different product name...oh well.
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