al principio teníamos IRC, salas de chat basadas en texto. Entonces ICQ vino y MSN messenger. La gente hablaba, incluso hice amigos de la vida real. Al principio Facebook se llamaba 'Social Media'. La interfaz era mala, pero la gente la usaba para comunicarse. Se desarrolló y se convirtió en 'Social Media'.Esto es cuando las cosas salieron mal. Ya no se trataba de comunicar. Se convirtió en un proceso industrial. Las redes sociales, los foros, Steemit, aplicaciones de mensajería, nos acercan. Las corporaciones centradas en el beneficio financiero nos desgarran.

Way back in the beginning we had IRC, just text and chat rooms where people would talk. Along came ICQ then MSN messenger. People talked, I made real life friends using these. In the beginning Facebook was called a 'social network' the interface was terrible, but people used it to communicate. over time it evolved and became 'Social Media' This is when things all went bad. Social networking, humans interacting with each other does indeed bring us closer together. Once the advertising machine gets in the way, it becomes an industrialised process to extract money and information from users. Ultimately Facebook will fail. we will always want a way to connect to others, even the most introverted of people(hi) still crave some kind of social interaction. The corporate machine will take over your life if you let it, but there has always been other options, steemit is a good example, will it always be good? time will tell on that one.