it's sad to see a genuinely good company gone and replaced by a slimy one. actually if you include oracle, two slimy ones. who are both inarguably far more successful.
it's sad because it's a statement about what our current economy values and what it does not. and to any of you who have the word "engineer" or "scientist" in your job title: it's definitely not those things.
They still rule the roost with that spyware WhatsApp
But at the point they were connecting people as a priority Facebook was an astoundingly good product.
Their greed ruined it (much like Google - it is a characteristic of public corporations in the capitalist system I guess).
If they could have been happy with simply being astoundingly rich they could have built on what they had, developing an ecosystem of software, and developers, to aid in connecting all the people of the world.
Instead they got deep into ad tech. Squeezed every dollar. Ruined it.
Mēh! Better off are we now!