Facebroke, Tiktok, et-al, are successful, because st00pid people are brainwashed into needing them! 

Facebroke (people cannot even be bothered to write full words, instead of just "fb") is a mind-masher, so who needs it? The OTHER ones, and I am INCLUDING falsely understood and much liked Blue Sky ("Truth Social" is THE worst), are even worse, because they are built for short attention span, and they only allow SHORT sound bites. Social web sites on ALL sides are tools of st00pidification! 

As Kojak would have said "... who loves ya Baby?" (he used that line for crooks)

Yeah, social media have somehow reprogrammed people's brains in BAD ways, and its CIA connected high-level founders and managers (seriously, look it up, this is real) KNOW what they are doing. 

Zuckerberg is just a figure head, and without somebody's, or something's(!) money, he would have just been another guy with a few computer commands he knew, and a desire to make some public revenge on an ex-girlfriend, like so many sociopath rear-end-cavities. 

I think I am not affected by their misinformation, because I am in the "spectrum". Maybe THAT is why RFK Jr is doing this INSANE war against autism, because he KNOWS the majority of us are far too intelligent for goons in power to handle, and we are immune to being manipulated. OR, he is being handled by somebody to do this crazy stuff. 

What makes us awkward in interactions at times, makes us immune to manipulation with false reality constructs. "Autism" is not a handicap, but a super power! 

The only reason I stay on Facebook, is to maintain a bit of contact, but I have pulled back lately. IF the times were not what they are, and IF we did not need to pull together by any means necessary, I would dump this damned thing! 

So what was before Facebroke, and Myspace before it, and AOL before that? 
Mentioning the old way of doing email to groups of people, and just hitting "reply all" for a nice discussion, or even to individuals, is no longer a "thing". It has not been a "thing" in about 25 years, since people were brainwashed by MySpace into thinking, they need some kind of corporate "digital meeting place", when small private bulletin boards and neat websites were all over the internet! 

Most people are average and lazy! If they have to write more than a "LOL" or other rank st00pidities, their heads pop from stress. I get "wtf" replies, when I mention email!  This was already happening in the 90s, and if you did not speak "AOL" gibberish, which butchered all language and interactions before cell-phones and Facebroke, even before MySpace, you were not "cool". SCREW COOL!!!

So what we have now, is a world, where people cannot be bothered to even pick up a damned phone, NOT for "txtng", but to actually TALK to somebody, which is so much more efficient and effective than writing "LOL" and other short crap st00pidities. 

As it is, the short attention span idiocy has lead us into a new "glorious" era of fascism, because people have been drummed into digital "meeting places" and were trained that details never matter. 

"TL:DR" is the "thing" now, meaning people cannot be bothered to pay attention, even and especially while they play a fun round of Russian Roulette, to splat their brains on a platter for the rulers to eat! 

Bon appétit!