Social Media started it's down fall ~2008 when the teachers and parents joined facebook.
I remember when facebook was _only_ the fellow kids you knew. There were inside jokes, offensive stuff, lots of pure text posts. It was _way_ different.
Parents and teachers joined, a couple kids got in trouble for what they posted on facebook, and everyone stopped using it freely.
I remember the exact moment that happened to me. I was sitting with an old friend, and we were looking at Facebook friend requests from my mom, and we looked at each other silently, and realized that everything was about to change.
No i disagree has nothing to do with that. The downfall is when it became a way for people to make money. Monetizing social media ruined it plain and simple. Now it's just full of people spamming the same trends and posting anything to go viral. The fact we literally have a generation of people of average people who do cringey dances and cringey voice overs as a job is insane.
It was more than the public, it was authority itself. So many people were grounded. Then came the ads shortly after the parents and then it really was over as it was.
I remember when facebook was _only_ the fellow kids you knew. There were inside jokes, offensive stuff, lots of pure text posts. It was _way_ different.
Parents and teachers joined, a couple kids got in trouble for what they posted on facebook, and everyone stopped using it freely.