Pre-YOLLO Feed, Search & Suggested Posts

Broken social networking since 2000s

Social media promised to bring us closer. However, since the early 2000s, it’s been quietly pulling us apart.

If you’ve spent any time on social media, you already know: today’s feeds, search results, and suggested posts are often a confusing mix of old, outdated and irrelevant posts, wherein old posts keep showing up at the wrong time. Prom photos dropping during graduation month or Spring Break beach pics showing up during your back-to-school Target runs. Feed is full of updates that are hours, days or even months old served to us pretending to be current.

You scroll through content that is hours old (posted 23 hours ago), days old (posted 5 days ago), or even months old (posted 3 months ago), all while trying to feel connected. But somehow, you are still the last to know what is actually happening with the people you care about in the present moment. We have all felt it. These zombie posts show up on your feed long after the moment has passed, as if they are still sitting there, but the feeling is gone. They are present on our screen, but disconnected from real life. Alive in form, but lifeless in meaning.

Even search does not help. You try to look for a new brunch place or the next Taylor Swift concert. But all you get is an endless scroll of outdated results from days, weeks, months, or even years ago. Nothing that helps you in the moment.

It does not matter what you care about - the algorithm controls what you see. You do not get to decide what trends, what stays, or what disappears. Either a post is up for a pre-fixed deadline, or it stays forever. Even then, your only options are to see things chronologically or based on what is most engaging. But never what’s actually happening right now with your people. Real life does not work that way, and neither do real friendships.

These platforms force you into a structure. You end up seeing old content, reacting to outdated moments, and scrolling past things you have already forgotten. You are never in sync with your friends or the world around you. You are always catching up. You are never there on time for your friend’s moments, and they are never there for yours. Slowly, you start losing the human connection that once felt so easy. Day by day, you feel more distant, more isolated, and more alone. And right when that loneliness starts to sink in, they suggest you AI friends, as if that’s what you were missing all along.

Imagine if, in real life, we were always talking about what happened yesterday, last week, or even last month, and replying to friends days or weeks later. Wouldn’t that break the human connection we share? Of course, it would. That is exactly what is happening online. No wonder people have stopped posting life updates. What is the point, if your friends do not see your post when it matters, and you miss theirs too?

Our friendships are not built on the past - they are shaped by how we show up today. Real friendships happens in the moment, not weeks or months later. And that’s the real problem with the present social networking. It is broken.

On every one of these apps, your past is your present, and your present never shows up in the moment.

It is not the 2000s anymore. It is the 2020s. And all these so-called social platforms are still stuck in the past.

You need an app that moves with you. It is time to move on!