Actually, Instagram was pretty sane for a long time. Until recently it just showed me who I followed and nothing else.

Now they're trying to complete with TikTok and I get all these crappy suggested reels and it's turning me off the platform. But for a long time it was pretty good unlike Facebook that ruined itself with its algorithmic feed.

> When Facebook came around we all knew it would be a disaster, and it was.

Not really. When Facebook started as college exclusive social site it seem quite innocent. Later when it created news-feed, opened up to everyone etc it became a cesspool. Once people started getting their news from it, that's when it became dangerous.