Mark Zuckerberg kill Facebook

Remember the golden days of Facebook, when the platform was a place to share photos and news, watch videos and play Happy Farm? Even political and intellectual discussions on Facebook were one of the best places for it!

It all ended about 7 or 8 years ago when Facebook turned from the site that everyone loves to the site that everyone hates so most of its users today still use it because they are used to using it and not because it is a platform they love to spend time on!

What brought Facebook to this situation?

Mark Zuckerberg and his management made several catastrophic mistakes that accumulated one after the other until Facebook is on the path of no return.

1. Cracking down on content creators for ads

If you are a content creator on YouTube, the platform's algorithms will help you spread when searching for topics similar to the above. If you are a content creator on Tik Tok, the application will recommend you to people who have similar interests, but if you are a content creator on Facebook, you have to pay money so that your posts reach your followers.

We all remember how Facebook changed the policy of accessing posts to followers, especially on pages, nearly 7 years ago. Your posts will not be visible to all our followers and we will reduce the visibility of posts with external links. If the follower does not interact with you enough, we will consider him not accused and days may pass without seeing a single post from your page.

The only solution to all those new controls is ads. Pay money for your content to reach our followers and we will not share any profits with you like YouTube or even Tik Tok do later!

2. Use dirty tactics with competitors

It all started in the early 2000s when Mark was trying to take over smaller rival companies. The American billionaire at the time was dealing with the principle that he is the master and you are the slave. He was asking corporate executives to come to Facebook's headquarters for an interview, not the other way around.

Whoever was just showing up to reject the takeover idea was directly threatened by Mark. We will either take over or destroy your company. With this policy, Mark dominated WhatsApp and Instagram, but he failed to acquire Telegram and Snapchat, which rejected the idea and his managers came out to expose Mark.

Zuckerberg did not hesitate to kill Snapchat and copied the Stories as they are without any change, so he did not care to change the name in a clear message to Snapchat and all those who tempted him to threaten the company's dominance of the social media market.

3. Exploiting users' data without their knowledge

For years, Facebook has been using user data to develop the site's algorithms to be the first destination for advertisers. The usage policy of Facebook and other applications has not been transparent enough to explicitly tell users that the company is collecting their data in order to target ads tailored to them.

The exposure of this matter came through a series of successive scandals that prompted Facebook to come out and announce this matter explicitly, but after the site lost the trust of users.

4. Snooping on users

Mark Zuckerberg kill Facebook

If you ask anyone, even if they aren't tech-savvy, have you noticed something weird about Facebook? It will tell you right away that it finds advertisements for products or places that he talked about with his friends and relatives without searching for them on the platform. Some may add that they found advertisements for products that they did not inform anyone about, they just thought about them and found their advertisements in front of them.

Something like this would cause panic in any user. How do I use a platform to spy on me so much? How does the platform read my thoughts?

Facebook's algorithms brutalize and make the platform the best among competitors for advertisers, but it made the user lose confidence again in a place where he used to spend a good day.

5. Greed for WhatsApp data

Almost two years ago, everyone was surprised that Mark's company would link the data it collects from WhatsApp to the Facebook accounts of the same users.

The company's announcement of the matter came directly and sharply. Either you agree to the new terms or WhatsApp will stop working for you. You have 15 days to approve or you won't be able to use WhatsApp.

Only the intense anger expressed by all WhatsApp users did not stop Facebook from completing this step, forcing the company to increase the period to 30 days before implementing the new policy, but because the users' objection did not stop, the company was forced to reverse this decision.

6. The Cambridge Analytica scandal

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is the biggest black mark in Facebook history, especially in Western societies. You are talking here about the data of 89 million users that was obtained against their will through twisted images and later used to influence the opinions of American voters.

The worst thing is that the Facebook administration was aware of the matter several years ago, and all it did was ask the data collector to stop the matter and delete the information it possesses.

Here you failed twice, the first time to preserve the data of users who trusted your platform and the second when you stopped exploiting that data and made a claim that will not affect anything.

7. Incitement to the clash between users on Facebook

One of the dirty tricks of Facebook's algorithms is to try to create a clash between people of different opinions. The platform’s algorithms may appear to a user who is not interested in a post, but a post that is completely opposite to his opinion only in order to try to create a clash between users and each other.

There is no objection to keeping some extremist views in order to ensure that there is more clash between supporters and opponents, even if this causes serious consequences.