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Nope. You got the time period right, but I would like to posit it’s when they started letting our Parents, drunk uncles and dumb ass aunties on Facebook.
The problem always has, and always will be, Facebook.
It's not Facebook either. The concept of letting too many of "those" people in to quickly and destroying the culture is known as "eternal September" and is from 93-94.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
But what made it more accessible and easy to access places like Facebook in the first place? Smart phones.
Smartphones weren’t really all that popular until 2007, and none of the ones before the iPhone 3G or like the Blackberry’s could really run Facebook all that well. The iPhone never really blew up to the level it’s at now until the 4 arguably, which didn’t come out until 2010 or 2011 (think it was 2010). Facebook had already been pretty infected before then.
I completely agree. Should have never taught the geriatric community how to access FB
Honestly someone should have just whooped Zucks ass and shut down Facebook entirely. It’s whole original premise was scummy and if only got worse. There was data at the time showing how bad it was. The roll out to various colleges was happening at the same time as a nationwide student health and wellness survey. Mental health dropped significantly whenever access was opened to a college.
And nothing of value would be lost.
It really is a lot like religion. All the good stuff you can get somewhere else but much of the bad stuff is unique.