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No decent mobile app, no groups, no Messenger, no Instagram, no WhatsApp, no real advertising product. It isn't 35x better, but there is no way the product offering is worse.

The Facebook experience feels worse, but that's because the novelty wore off and people don't share anywhere as much as they did back in the heyday.

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The timeline changed into the monster we experience today. We had pokes, games that interacted with our profiles, pictures and albums that all displayed. We still have the network concept where if I went to MIT I was part of that group. This is golden age facebook peaking around facebook graph 2012.

WhatApp came with 55 employees, instagram had 13. They introduced groups October 2010. No messenger or mobile app.

People have stopped sharing but many shares are suppressed and ads appear every 3rd post. Things haven't improved.. but I see they are selling verified profiles now I guess some people were looking forward to that product offering

I don't even use WhatsApp or Instagram so I judge Facebook on the basis of Facebook alone. I still use it but there are literally only maybe a dozen people I know who use it with any regularity. I certainly won't pay Facebook to use it.

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