That's true, I have been put off by Facebook more than I should have. Thinking of what I just wrote above, I do realise that things like Yammer do provide a tangible benefit. Those slack groups even more so. In fact the communication with peers in other businesses is highly valuable and the informality (compared to e.g. LinkedIn) really adds to the information flow.

I think for me where facebook went wrong was when they stopped showing a list of posts of my friends (the 'feed' I think they called it), and started with the 'timeline'. Which meant hiding some posts from my friends and adding other stuff their algorithms thought I would be interested in. Unfortunately they were mostly wrong.

I view social media in terms of pearls:crap ratio. If I find something that makes me smile or really enlightens me, it's a pearl. Everything else I just have to drag through is crap.

Twitter for me has always had a really low ratio. The short messages promote hollow nothingness like what you had for dinner and discourage insightful information. Facebook used to be pretty good at this, until the timeline. This dropped the ratio like a brick and made it all a chore. What got me to leave was the Cambridge Analytica stuff but to be honest the real damage was done long before that.

So yes maybe I will give it another shot :) Sorry if I came across as harsh (not about Slyde but social media in general), but you do have a very good point with facebook having soiled the general reputation of social media. Sadly enough this makes it even harder for you!