If I ask you a question, “What is the
best & most famous online marketplace in the world?”, what will be your
answer? Yes, it’s Amazon for sure, some will go for eBay or AliExpress. So, if
you want to sell or buy something on Amazon or eBay, you’ve to enter into their
site & then, a lot of proceedings you have to follow. Although it’s not
easy to sell any product on Amazon. But if you can buy, sell, express your
thoughts, enjoy social environments, communicate with friends, get and share reviews, can
reach people easily, upload or watch videos, share them & more things on
one platform, & if this platform is your most visited online site, how will
you feel? Great, right? Because nowadays Facebook is that platform. One
platform to rule the others.
Once Facebook was a pure social media.
It was created in 2004, but I first opened my Facebook account in 2009 & at
that time, Facebook was far different. It was a place where one can make
friends, share their thoughts, photos, chat with friends, create differents groups
to socialize &, etc. But those options were limited & easygoing. A
little list of friends with a small social group to enjoy our leisure was our
motto for Facebook. I can still remember those days, those simple slow
messaging with friends, sharing emotions & tiredness on Facebook
everyday.
Day by day, it started growing popularity,
it's getting updated & changing rapidly. Creators of Facebook made different apps
for chatting, app management & the main one ‘Facebook’. The communication strategies made it more handful to communicate with more people so easily & fastly. People started to use it as their most essential communication medium as the internet is cheaper now.
Now let me come to the point which I mentioned
initially. After all these years, a lot of updates, changes happened & are
also still happening on Facebook & now it’s not only a social-media which
it was once. It’s more than a marketplace now. As Facebook grows rapidly, the
company itself competing with the world's richest brands as well as it’s one of
the most visited sites in the world everyday. Creators turned it into a
universal website where you can do almost everything you want by only making a
simple account or a page. Do you want to buy or sell anything? Do you want to
advertise your business? Do you want to make money by creating video content? Do
you want a group from where you can get suggestions on something or need a review
of a specific product? Or just want to use it as usual? For everything, it’s
open. That’s why I think Facebook is going to be take a place in the famous
marketplace category though it is a social networking platform.
So,
now I am telling you why I’m writing it. Because I’m not enjoying that change, it
bothered me nowadays. Once, I used Facebook as a social place where I passed my leisure time with friends & society. The word ‘social’ matters in that
topic because Facebook is no more a social platform. It is a commercial
platform now. You can’t use Facebook as before you used it. And for the modernization
of artificial intelligence (AI), it’ll push you to be a commercial one. It’s
always showing you the ads of those products you search in Google or other
platforms, you’ve to see ads in every video you see as, like Youtube, even it’ll
try to push you to follow those commercial groups, pages, etc. Even Instagram & WhatsApp are also now a part of Facebook. I think many users don’t enjoy this. Maybe they miss the older version of Facebook.
Most people use Facebook everyday. Some use for socializing, some for earning, or some for advertising. I know this is the best medium for communication, also for starting your new online business, can be helpful for educational purpose or can be a good source of income but, indeed, this Facebook isn’t enjoyable which it was before.
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