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It has in the area of 200,000,000 downloads per month, so it must be filling some kind of need(s).

It is by no means perfect, but I watched a 3-hour conversation between JR and a fellow named Tristan Harris. TH is a former Google "ethicist," and has just completed a doc. about social media.

As you have strong feelings about the subject, I really recommend the interview, and the doc. is probably great, as well.

The issue is SO much bigger...deeper...broader...and more entrenched that I had even imagined. For instance - as you said about contributing to the downfall of humanity - FB is being used for, among other things, ginning up massacres.

In Ethiopia, many languages and dialects are spoken, but only the most widely used and "official" dialect is supported by FB. In fact, they don't even have people capable of translating many of the languages in which FB is published. They are completely helpless and ignorant when villains are cooking up their malice in those cases. which contributed to the "efficiency" of Ethiopian campaigns of oppression and death.

And that is the tip of the iceberg.