Bye-bye Facebook! by Vadim Onishchenko

As quickly social networks involved billions of people in their world, where it’s common to share information about each step: your breakfast, how much you’re swamped at work, complexities of personal life, impressions of things you saw and heard; so as quickly everyone got bored with present-day social networks.

Recently Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a decrease in time spent on the site by 50 million hours daily compared with the previous quarter. He called on investors not to panic and attributes it to the new change of policies regarding the news feed in January 2018. ​

Despite Zuckerberg’s promises to make Facebook more meaningful, so that the time spent on this social network would become more valuable, and the news feed would prioritize posts from family members and friends, rather than media and brand posts, about half of all users from all age groups stated that they spend less time on Zuckerberg’s social network. The biggest decline is among users from 18 to 34 years old.

This kind of situation isn’t surprising. Facebook collects huge amounts of personal data about its users, uses them for advertising and political campaigns and gets a lot of money. At the same time being a regular user on Facebook doesn’t give you any material benefits.

This discontent is supported by big American and international businessmen. Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch said that social media firms should pay publishers a fee in the same way that cable network operators pay for the channels they offer. Billionaire George Soros at the beginning of the year publicly called the social network “an obstacle to innovation” and “a menace to society”, accusing Facebook of influencing how people think in order to obtain financial benefits, while people lose their independence and self-awareness.

I dream about such order of things on the Internet where any user activity would be rewarded. Yep, the Internet is a grand advertising platform, yes, users and advertisers use each other, but let’s pay the bills! SELFLLERY will be a place that will give users a tangible monetary benefit for uploading a high-quality visual content, for each received like. That’s what I call spending time productively on the Internet, Mark.