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 have spent any time on social media, you know how it feels. Feeds, search results, and suggested posts are a confusing mix of old, outdated, and irrelevant moments. Prom photos pop up during graduation month, Spring Break beach pics show up while you are back-to-school shopping. Your feed is full of updates that are hours, days, or even months old yet presented as if they are happening now.
You scroll through posts from hours, days, or even months ago, hoping to feel connected. Still you are the last to know what is actually happening with the people who matter most. We have all been there. These posts stay on your screen but are disconnected from real life in that moment. They look alive, but the meaning is already gone.
Search isn't any better. You look up a new brunch spot or the next Taylor Swift concert and fall into an endless scroll of results from days, weeks, or even years ago. Nothing that actually matters right now.
It does not matter what you care about. The algorithm decides what you see. You do not get to decide what trends, what stays, or what disappears. A post either disappears after a pre-fixed deadline or stays forever. Even then, your feed only shows things chronologically or by what's “most engaging.” Never what's actually happening now with your friends. Real life does not work like that. Neither do real friendships.
Other apps trap you in a loop - old, irrelevant posts, missed moments, and endless scrolling. You are never really in sync with your friends, and always catching up. Important moments pass, yours get ignored, and slowly that real connection fades. Slowly, that easy human connection starts to fade. Day by day, you feel a little more distant, a little more alone. And when loneliness sets in, they offer AI friends, as if that's what was missing.
Imagine if real life worked this way. You only talked about what happened last week, and replied to friends days later. The connection would die, right? That's exactly what's happening online. No wonder people barely post anymore - what's the point if your friends don't see it when it matters, and you miss theirs too?
Friendships aren't built on the past. They're shaped by how we show up today. Real connection happens in the moment, not weeks or months later. And that's the real problem with social networks today - they're broken.
On most social apps, your past becomes your present, and your present rarely shows up when it matters.
It's the 2020s. Yet most social apps are still stuck in the past. YOLLO fixes that for you.