https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-and-the-folly-of-self-regulation/

My late colleague, Neil Postman, used to ask about any new proposal or technology, “What problem does it propose to solve?”

When it comes to Facebook, that problem was maintaining relationships over vast time and space. And the company has solved it, spectacularly. Along the way, as Postman would have predicted, it created many more problems.