Is it normal i think instagram is dying and social media sucks now

Ever since Facebook took over instagram has gone to crap. Facebook has already ruined itself so that was expected.
Personally I am sad because I like photos.
I am an amateur photographer, studied photo in school.
I think instagram is dying because no one can get likes or followers anymore.
There is no reach, you get random accounts you dont care about on your startpage...
Only one of my instagram accounts that still has good reach is one where I post random poems of mine. Even that one gets few likes compared to amount of followers but at least it's something.
Not even my pets get likes anymore and they used to.
It's like tiktok has taken over but tiktok is all about videos and I think that this is what has ruined instagram.
If instagram is dying then where will people post photos?
I dont understand why Facebook would do this.
I liked the chill way of posting random photos and interacting with friends. Now it's all about business, influencers and competition.
It is no longer fun. It actually sucks, it's boring and instagram pushes certain accounts on you and hides other accounts. It's all about benefitting their own personal agendas instead of the fun platform it once was...
Maybe it means that social media is dying? Facebook is the biggest and they keep ruining everything they take into their hands.
No one I know uses social media nowadays. If they're on it they don't use it actively. No one really sees any point anymore.

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  • girlinadarkcorner

    Social media in general has been getting a lot worse in my opinion. I can barely stand instagram now, despite it once being my favorite platform, especially with how much they try to emulate tiktok now.

    Plus it seems to be the same overused memes reposted over and over on the app all the time and the attitude most people seem to have on there is so toxic, because they're all obsessed with getting likes and followers and superficial praise.

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    • True it's all about likes and followers nowadays.
      While its more rewarding to get more likes on a nice photo you uploaded I never understood the hype about followers.
      Its become a popularity contest about who has the most followers, and still many followers tend to be inactive.

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      • RoyyRogers

        Oh no.. its like when youtube was taken by google. We never thought a search engine could ruin so much!

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  • Somenormie

    I moved over from Facebook ages ago these I'm all about Instagram or Snapchat.

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    • Winston_Adam

      Same here, but just Instagram.

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  • Meatballsandwich

    Instagram was always pretty bad, IMO. I never understood why people used it instead of just using Facebook. Also, why did people even switch to Facebook from MySpace? That social-media seemed a lot more fun than anything after.

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  • Curiouskitten444

    I hear you. Im resistant to using tiktok.

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  • Holzman_67

    Yeah I used to make fun of it in the early 2010s when it was just a hipster app, young people on there wanting to use filters to make their photos look like photos their parents took when they were young. But looking back, who was to know those were the glory days? There’s so many ads and content that’s shown to me now that I’m not interested in and bot accounts. It’s a mess

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  • Tommythecaty

    There was a point where social media didn’t suck?

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    • Meatballsandwich

      MySpace was pretty fun.

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      • Tommythecaty

        Apparently you and I have different definitions of what constitutes “fun” sir.

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        • Meatballsandwich

          Fun is subjective.

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          • Tommythecaty

            Often times it is.

            Myspace however, is objectively not fun.

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            • Meatballsandwich

              More fun than today's social-media.

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    • Yeah it used to be fun

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  • PurpleHoneycomb

    Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all have their own strengths. You mostly just have to learn to manage your feed to what you do and don't want to see. Instagram is my least favorite of the major social medias and it always has been.

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    • Which one is your favorite?

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