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Comment by paganel | Hacker News Reader

> How did we end up like this?

Because sharing personal stuff privately, on group chats, groups made up of close friends, family etc., is the normal thing to do, sharing our personal stuff on FB, IG and the like was the exception. No, it was definitely not ok to share photos of one's unborn baby on FB/IG for almost anyone to see, that was creepy.

Glad that things are returning to a sort of normal.

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For a long time Facebook was friends only - so what you posted was only visible to people you knew. They slowly changed the default to friend of friends and then public and that changed the whole feel.

Nobody in their real mind has more than 10, let's say 15 close-ish friends (with whom to share photos of your unborn baby, for example), as such Facebook was never really about friends, it was more about acquaintances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number Just in case you weren't aware :)

It was for college kids, it was for hooking up.

Sure, however I want to follow what acquaintances are doing too. It's especially useful if they are in my city and I see that on social media and want to catch up with them.

Well idea was that everyone could become influencer.

Reality check came and now we have cast of influencers whose lifestyle is “being influenced”.

Local Karen is left disappointed that she is not that funny/hot/interesting and she is left with watching pro influ stuff only.

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