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why all social media sucks

2026-04-18

let me be clear this is just my opinion coming from my experience so you may have another pts it may be opposing to mine but i don't think you can change me as much as i can't change u so just think of my pts

this is experience is based on someone who are living in Cairo , Egypt you may had another experience

first lets start with facebook , facebook i left it from around 2022 becuz facebook it just the face of the book the back is empty and all the pages in between is written and scripted by money paying to them the actual is script writers in this app is not the programmers and suckers led by mark they are money paying people (govs , billionaires , advertisers ) so the truth is what these payers think from their prospective and the book is written by them and every post there should match their rules (which is the defined by who is paying the platform right now) and i don't need to mention that all our scrolling data is feed to google , researchers , other outsources who are welling to pay. over that you get that idc that friend of my friend his birthday today or commented in a gp i am in why do i care and the algorithms recently started in egypt encouraging silly videos of weird and giving a false impressions and assumption about egypt society and culture which will be probably paid by another government

second instagram and snapchat i don't get what the point of them and i never used them so i will move on this doesn't mean they are good i just didn't try them

after i left facebook in 2022 , i started getting more hooked with creating software so i wanted to get to know more people in the field , get more ideas , see how people is thinking so i did my first Twitter acc i found most people is there this was my first intuitive when i joined twitter backi in 2022 everything was early back then (notion was very early , raycast was not that popular like now , cursor was not there yet , claude was not there ) alot of things that we used to have today i just saw it growing in this platform what we had between 2022-2026 was so many no one can handle there stats that between these 4 yrs the amount of startups and LOC written more than 4x than past 20 years i was enjoying it but lately my X timeline is crazy like i open my timeline i just see 17 posts about that anthropic released new model everyone saying it is added so much crowd and the amount of useless things that i don't care about that is there and X after elon musk started pushing politics in my feed (i never been interested in politics but i became more on that later) and i don't like it i am feed up like now i have one my muted words is "kirk" like fuck u charlie in whenever hell you are you and your wife. politics right now it is very toxic and not playable field for me and i am very actionable person so saying just words and not acting is form of weakness so i don't care who condems who and i don't see 12 posts about how [[UAE]] condems isreal and at the same time they supply with weapons every week the big news will come in your way you don't need to open to see them and they are what semantically true mean the other details are just false info or unconfirmed hell so i am leaving and i don't think i will be coming back goodbye to all people may this be good start for me.

but Elon lets have talk about freedom ? do you actually know the meaning of this word or becuz you are repeating this word too much you forgot what it means?? i will give you an example this week a person called "Osama Gawish" i am not fan of him but he said that the UAE ordered musk and his team to hide his acc in UAE becuz he is spreading info about UAE so i opened a vpn in this moment and found that actually he is hidden i can't find his acc , read his earlier posts according to ur truth engine (grok) the source of truth and community notes in this platform he didn't spread any false info this is an example how X is handled the truth after they don't care. one thing about grok in X i think the main pt of grok in this platform is to make people believe he is telling the truth but he is not and i am not noticing this clearly what grok did that he generated alot of videos and add a lot of Ai slop in this platform so people stop believing actually of what is true or not so their form truth can get in(this what happened when there is huge rumors that nethayhu died and these controlling happened for around 14 days they tricked the world from believing and proved their point) , compiracy theorms can find its way to stupid people mind becuz they start saying no one is saying the true so what makes him not true.

so my last advice for u is to quit till the opensource X , Facebook with the actual focus on communication between people not about their data and controlling and feeding the truth to those don't have access to the real truth. you are broke at least don't make a billionare control your mind , your mind is all you have at this moment