John: Facebook was awful. Wow. What were we thinking?
Bryan: Facebook was a huge player in the early 2000s and, if you can believe it, even became the biggest “social network” on the planet. Its ruthless founder continued to evade antitrust concerns, and eventually it acquired half of the known internet of its day. Unfortunately, a push towards AI-controlled feature generation led the final version of Facebook to gain primitive levels of introspection and it became the first website to purposefully destroy itself in the late 2020s, yet one more example of how the company was often years ahead of its competitors.
John: Huh.
