Meta’s Monopoly Made It a Fair-Weather Friend

This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Trial of an unbeliever This can result in the breakdown of the Mater’s Social Networking Empire. It’s about 3 billion users in the company’s flagship app before Facebook – known as the blue app – despite the constant service they still use the service they use is transparent AudiblenessThe (For records, two years ago, Tom Allison, who is the head of the service, Issued a statement “Facebook is not dying or not dying.”) But with all the hubbabs around this trial, Facebook users probably missed the most notable news about Blue year after year. March 27, 2025, 21 -year -old company quietly Declare a new feature In its mobile app: An option that gives users’ novel experience Sees the contents of their friends on FacebookThe Finally, there was an alternative to a news feed impressed with garbage, gossip and dominant videos that people do not necessarily ask, but then clicking and then can not prevent feeling bad. By identifying and selecting the Friends Tab, your feed will be exclusively with the posts of people you know in real life and you have chosen to contact the person you have. You can even call it a social app. Imagine!

The organization’s explanation is saying. “For years, Facebook developed to meet the changing demand …” Read the press notice, “But friends magic has fallen.” I surprised the passive voice. Meta evaluation is more than one trillion. It has attached about half of humanity – all the power of people who want to keep pace with friends and family. And somehow, the main purpose of the organization to connect friends is only … falls? Thousands of engineers, designers, marketers and directors working on Facebook just woke up one day and said, “Hey, someone who has seen the thing Too because we are a company? “

No, it didn’t just happen. Consider that in a press release on the death of Facebook in 2023, Allison listed the priorities for the app that year, including “artificial intelligence, message, creator and cashing”. There is no word about increasing the content of the friend, though the meta executives knew that people just wanted to see it. It was published in court that Zuckerberg was aware of the years that his users would like to hear more from their friends. A meta survey in 2021 found that Percent 1 percent of users wanted more friends post and Percent 66 percent wanted to see the broad variety of posts among their friends. One year later, another survey revealed that the Federal Trade Commission called “Reduce in investment in friends and family sharing” was three of the top four “pain points” on Facebook.

Here is an explanation for this. The contents of dominant, political activists and fake news agencies are more profitable and keep people prolonged. The wrong information from a stranger is more valuable than meta than family updates and travel photos from friends. Those who are not usually viral. That is why when Alison wrote about AI, he does not want to use it to find what your friends are saying, but to connect you with the manufacturers who are posting their own wallets to increase their own wallets. On the stand, zuckerberg Offer a different explanation For Change: People begin to share in messages applications instead of social platforms. But maybe the reason they stop sharing on Facebook have made all these toxic post platforms unpleasant from strangers?

Zuckerberg was slippery when he acknowledged that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp to eliminate the competition – this is the key to justice. However, he was recognized that the mission of this company was dramatically spread from the main feeling-crusade to connect the people. It is now an entertainment company like a social network, he says. A chart shared by Meta has shown that entertainment has overwhelmed social materials. In 2025, Facebook users spent only 17 percent of their time looking at the contents shared by friends. This is not because they prefer to read staff from the influential and wrath, Meta’s own survey shows that users are dying to see things from their families. Yet Zuckerberg mentions the truth that when it comes to the content of the friend, “The part of what we do is not true.” Again, passive voice!

Hungry people have to see friends posts, one can expect that the talented staff of Meta will be employed to maximize the value of human connection. It was for many years. In the early 20’s, I was often called in the conference room of Mark Zuckerberg, dubbing the aquarium, to see some interesting projects to increase the quality of social networks. Some of these projects haven’t implemented – don’t remember Search the graph? – But they had an honest effort to meet the company’s mission. With the progress of the decade, the social aspect of Facebook became less than a priority for Zuckerberg and his emotions were transferred to virtual reality and artificial intelligence.