Raw LLM Responses

OG Facebook made a bunch of other good ideas during the early years. A lot of the basic social media mechanics were developed there after the company was already founded. The first version was very different. The really bad ideas, besides all the privacy problems of early years, were really just two things: 1. feed of suggested content instead of friends’ updates. That made it difficult to use Facebook for the thing most were using it for: connecting to people. 2. “Engagement” as measure of what people want to see in this ai filled feed. People tend to actually react more to things they don’t want to see. Which is engagement. And now if any friends wanted any updates to be seen they had to optimize for it. No more mundane updates, now everything needs to be engaging. Cue all the optimization for likes. Both of those ideas made them a lot of money but turned Facebook from social media to advertisement platform.