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Why can't it be both? I see people using it both ways, every day.


You see people trying to use it that way, while wading through a morass of paid advertising and promoted memes. I can use a brick as a hammer, too, but that doesn't make the brick a hammer.


Why do so many people forget that they control their feed? Maybe less than some of us would like, but I carefully curate my feed and use mute and so on and my feed has very little junk in it. Mostly family stuff and jokes/memes, with some ads for stuff that actually does interest me. It's not hard. Most of us here solve harder problems every day.


I did that until my feed was mostly empty and uninteresting, so I deleted my account.


But that assumes that the feed is the primary value of FB. For me the value is in the social graph. I don't even follow the posts of people.




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