The Copy Hostess Back Catalog: Facebook exploded. And now, the weather.

Originally published: July 30th

CURRENT MOOD:

We can’t NOT talk about how much money Facebook lost last week.

Seriously. $100 billion. That’s not a number you forget.

Everyone should be talking about this. One of the biggest social media networks on the planet (that definitely has plans for world domination) lost over a BILLION dollars.

We should be talking about this. But we shouldn’t be surprised.

We pretty much all knew something bad was going to happen to Facebook. They’ve betray their users’ trust, had super-cringey faux pas at tech demonstrations, and have been so clumsy at fixing their own mistakes that chouruses of “WHY DID YOU EVEN BOTHER” have been echoing within Groups.

But I can’t completely rag on Facebook, because… Groups exist.

Within this garbage fire of a network are clusters of really cool people. Groups like the Coven make Facebook more worth than it ever was when it was just a feed of photos and bragging.

Lots of my friends have jumped ship from Facebook to Instagram and haven’t looked back. I don’t blame them. There’s more opportunities to curate one’s own feed (thus control one’s own level of online unhappiness) and only interact with people if you really, really want to.