Facebook is dying!!!
By Alex Pienkowski, Contributing Writer February 28, 2018 I opened a Facebook account when I was 13 years old, following the dictated terms of service because my dad refused to let me break any rules. At around the same time, my family also moved back to my parents’ native country of Poland after having lived in California for most of my life, along with a three year stint in Switzerland. Facebook was a tool that allowed me to effortlessly stay connected with all the classmates I had met in the different states and countries I had lived in. Unfortunately, I stopped actively using Facebook ever since I started college because I realized that it’s ugly, dysfunctional and it doesn’t actually do what I had initially used it for: allow me to keep up with my friends. Social media platforms like Facebook have shifted away from the principles that they were founded on: connectivity and social interaction in the digital sphere. Instead, thanks to algorithms, Facebook has turned into a messy ...
