[Henk]

There is nothing wrong with the concept of social media, it's the way it is implemented in a capitalistic world.

When a product is for free then you're the product. And who would pay, let's say $10 monthly, for the use of Facebook or Google? The costs of running these media are huge, so they need to make money from advertisements. Since they want you to click on the ads they started to build data lakes to create a more "personal" experience by storing a lot of data for each user. You can sent a request to Google to learn what they know about you, I'm sure you'll be flabbergasted.

I don't have any of these social media, used to have a LinkedIn account because I'm a freelance software developer. I stay far away from Google and Microsoft products and use alternatives like DuckDuckGo.

I would love to join the Facebook Slot community, I read there's a lot going on and many left the fora for it.

But giving away so much privacy for a hobby? That's a question everyone has to decide for himself. I made mine already, as you can guess