Closest things I use that’s social media adjacent was Reddit and now here. I would say the two sites after years helped me dumb things down. Which was a real problem for me before hand. In college I was told, I was brilliant and had all the answers but I had a real problem communicating with most people.

In my teens, I stole some CDs. This was pre-napster. I didn’t have money to spend bit it’s hard to deny the importance of music to people, especially in those formative years. I only took 2 maybe 3 total, because the guilt of taking it a CD each time wasn’t worth it.

To give you an idea of how much guilt, I don’t like people offering me food… Because it was theirs and now it’s not. The fact they offered it means nothing. (Of course, the reverse isn’t true)

I hated it when everything became ‘smart’.

Now everything has ‘AI’.

Nothing was smart. And that’s not AI.

Everything costs more, everything has a stupid app that gets abandoned, IoT backend that’s on life support the moment it was turned on. Subscriptions everywhere! Everything is built with lower quality, lower standards.