[fitkoh]

i am looking for more views and your personal reviews on it. and how can we protect ourself.

I think the first generation of social networks will soon be left behind.

For me, it's less a matter of intrusive ads, and more a matter of information control. I don't like that the individuals that own these giant media outlets have so much control over the information that people have access to. I don't like that public opinion and popularity are measured in analytics that are largely affected by twitter bots. I don't like that Mark Zuckerberg's personal bias (regardless of whether or not I agree with it) decides what information shows up my facebook stream. I don't like the "independent fact checkers" that decide whether or not something is true. People should be allowed to decide for themselves. I read 1984, and I don't want to continue the trend towards doublethink.

Fortunately the internet continues to evolve, and a new generation of social media is emerging. Meet mastodon: a decentralized federated social network with  no ads and no single corruptible individual making all the decisions.

I predict (and hope) that going into the future we will see more community owned open source solutions taking up the flag of keeping people connected where platforms like facebook and twitter have become agents of polarization, radicalization, and division. These services, which initially brought so many people together and enabled so much communication, are now just filled with people are arguing and disagreeing and pushing their position on everyone else.