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Facebook was never a peoples directory at the start. It was similar to how instagram is now because you could only find your friends and other people your age in your area. Instagram keeps this by not being a peoples directory and thats how the original facebook users want to keep things.

From the perspective of Europe and Asia at least, the rise of the far-right and far-left was already in motion by 2006 and was catapulted by a combination of increasing tensions with Muslim minority groups and the Great Recession. It is almost a steady rise rather than something fueled by social media. The social media in these regions is probably too left-wing for the mainstream.



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