They are places for advertisers to put their stuff, and for political parties to spew their nonsense. Filter through it and it's OK, but I am not a member of most of them.

Empty is a more apt word imo

Yes, and not just kinda. I'm afraid the old social media type of sites are gone forever.

Social media are as good and as bad as the people who use them.

Welcome to SW, young man!

i haven't used Instagram in a year, or any other social media platform other than this in forever. Reason being is because it's so negative and full of ragebait.

its all bad

But what makes it bad nowadays. Seems like most started in good places and they slowly fell apart.

A lot of stuff is bad.. not just social media.. 😳

it begs the question.... why???

Yes