Facebook I hate you!

There I said it! Here are 10 reasons why I really hate Facebook and all its acquired companies. I’m looking at you Instagram.

1. Because everything you touch turns to shit. Like king Midas you have your magic touch, but unlike him, your hand rots whatever your infinite greed touches. Instagram is just one example of the corporate rape you did to a company once known for being fair and caring towards its customers. Your constant acquisitions are a way for self-preservation and to maintain your dominance over the world.
2. Because your customer service really sucks. When my Instagram account was hacked, it was impossible to speak or even chat to a human being. You became so dependent on your impressive technology that it actually emphasizes how stupid you really are for allowing it. Are you enjoying your earned spare time by watching Instagram stories? Get more humans! Yes, they may not be as reliable but I’m absolutely sure that at least they will try to get where you are coming from. A stupid caring man is more valuable than an intelligent machine without the ability to empathize.
3. Because you have changed the world habits. People now, some more than others, are slaves to your antics. Humanity is obsessed with content and likes. Every time you actually decide to post something you wonder how many people likes, comments, saves, or shares your posts. Are we getting something out from this?
4. Because I’m working for you for free. This is not a leveled field. What you are giving me is much less from what I’m giving you. Here I am, spending all my creative juices and my time in order to please an ever-evolving algorithm for what? Based on my experience it is much harder to get an audience now than years before, but I’m still posting for your scraps because I really have no other alternative.
5. Because you are a Monopoly who should have been regulated a long time ago. The definition of Monopoly is the following: “A market structure characterized by a single seller, selling a unique product in the market. In a monopoly market, the seller faces no competition, as he is the sole seller of goods with no close substitute”. You may say that there are competitors for Instagram or Facebook, until you buy them out of course. You can also say that TikTok is different, until you try to be the same by changing Instagram. The fact that you have such a shitty customer service is because you no longer have to really compete with anyone else. 
6. Because from a business standpoint it is a broken tool that no longer works. I create something that I want to share. In the good old days I had to find ways to invest in advertising and marketing in general. I could pay for an ad in a magazine and it would depend on how well the magazine sells, and how creative my ad was for it to be successful or not. Now, I pay for my ad to reach certain audience, but in the end it will be limited by the algorithm if it deems not entertaining enough for us screen addicts to watch. 
7. Because it is a dumpster fire for mass hysteria, conspiracy theories, and lies. We live in a world dominated by deceit, and the problem is that those lies are no longer recognizable. We are fed the same lies over and over again for entertainment. If you believe in something you double down and feed us more of that. What I believe is on me, but what you reinforce on us is on you. I have come to the conclusion that we are all lied, even if we are fed the truth. If we don’t like a certain politician, you make absolutely sure that we keep on hating him. The algorithm will “recommend” more radical ideas on the subject. Are we even allowed to change our own ideas. Maybe we could, if not for your constant bickering.
8. Because of your endless ads and suggestions. This may seem trivial and repetitive, but again, you are preaching your gospel and we, your dumb audience, are willing to hear everything. Even if we skip your ads, there is no way we can escape them. We will fall victim to your suggestions, but to be fair, this has been done since the creation of marketing. What is new is that you are spying on us and that is just not fair nor ethic.
9. Because now I have to be a professional video editor to be relevant in social media. If I don’t do reels there is no way I could survive in a sea full of content creators. Are we really making content creators the most valuable career nowadays? There is a reason I’m not a video editor and I know it is fairly obvious. It is because I hate doing that and now you are forcing me to make a clown of myself for a few likes. This is really demeaning.
10. But the main reason I hate you is because you have given unmeasurable control to an algorithm, to an ever-evolving formula that has turned itself into a modern deity. You are now a vampire. Yes, you were a great idea, but now your only mission is to slave us into submission by brainwashing us and turn us into something you can actually comprehend, robots.

You may think this list is coming from spite, and you’d be absolutely right. I resent you and hate the fact that you minimize and block my efforts to better myself. Your general idea of connecting the world has been a charade and it only hides your true intention on slaving us. 

It is ironic that I will be posting this killing blow on some of your platforms. I know, it won’t even make a dent but you see, this manifesto is for me and it is my God given right  freedom of speech that Zuckerberg can’t take away from me. I need you to listen and I really need you to understand that If I could insult you to your face I would. What you’ve done is not heroic nor enlightened, no. What you have done is parasitic and now your façade is over. This is truly a predicament since we can no longer live without social media, or at least, we are led to believe this. I’m addicted to my feed and it is counterproductive. Is there a way to control, or get rid of this? Maybe no, but there has to be more awareness of the damage this is doing. There was a time when The Flinstones promoted Winston cigarettes in a TV commercial. Maybe in the future we will no longer tolerate this dominion and we will be partially emancipated. For the time being I will post this and watch carefully how many likes, comments, shares, and saves I get in order to get an audience for my idea to get across. Talk about chasing my own tail. I’d never have thought humanity’s collective goal would be summarized in one single word, engagement.