Going Viral Has Killed the Social Media We Used to Know

Omar Zahran
7 min readDec 3, 2022

Algorithms, engagement, and the phenomenon that changed the way that we view social media

If you are like me and are in your mid-thirties or older, you have lived through the entire social media era. From the early days of instant messenger apps to today’s vertical video landscape. In that time, we have seen many companies come and go (remember MySpace and Vine?), but…

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