They, the social media corps talk about targeted advertising but they hand out acidic crap to rip off both the advertiser and their users.

As far as advertising goes, it pays the bills and we could use it here at Steemit so that content providers received more.

There are a couple of good things about social media: I get to see and hear from my vast family which live far away and who I can now interact with an watch all my nephews and nieces grow up into smiling little chappies and chapettes.

Secondly, I was hacked like a big dog and social media was a way to store the information of my research and battles without it being destroyed. My computer went bust or I dropped my phone and I can connect and find most of the data just as I wrote it or photographed it and for that I thank them.

Anyways, we all must learn. We have to overcome our obstacles even if they are within ourselves. Social media like anything else, a crowd at a bar for example, is a barrier to find out just how much we like fame or the ability to meet someone and step back and say, do I really want to be with this person, are we compatible?