Instagram turned itself into TikTok. I found the still photos I shared there are no longer seen by my “friends” or “followers”. “The Algorithm” no longer exists to share content between Friends – instead, it, and Facebook, have adopted the TikTok model.

TikTok’s algorithm figured out that showing videos of attractive, mostly young people, engaged in “exciting” activities, preferably luxury – like traveling to exotic destinations – or videos that get people emotionally riled up and angry – leads to longer viewing sessions.

TikTok stole a lot of users from Instagram and Facebook.

Thus, Instagram and Facebook adopted the same approach. This is why – on Facebook, I no longer see posts from family members – in fact, I thought some had stopped using FB because I had not seen their posts in a year! Nope, they were sharing items but FB never showed them to me.

I read today that, on average, just 7% of posts seen on Facebook are from your friends. The “social” part of social media is gone.

Today, I deleted the Instagram app. Yesterday I deleted my BlueSky account completely. (One day later I deleted the TikTok app off of my tablet. 2 days later I deleted my TikTok account. TikTok’s algorithm is manipulative to engage your eyeballs for longer – by primarily, it seems, spreading outrage.)

I may now be checking in to FB once per week, may be twice. We will see. I used to log in once per day. But when I logged in earlier, I saw only 3 posts from actual friends – everything else was FB’s random insertions, ads and group posts.

Today’s IG and FB are not what they used to be – and I learned A LOT OF PEOPLE have already abandoned them.

The concept of “social media” for sharing between friends is completely dead.

On X, most of my posts were viewed just 10 to 20 times this past week.

So why continue using X?

Social media is dead from self-inflicted wounds.