{"id":229911,"date":"2026-01-27T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/facebook-admits-the-social-network-isnt-social"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:03:08","slug":"facebook-admits-the-social-network-isnt-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/facebook-admits-the-social-network-isnt-social","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Admits the Social Network Isn\u2019t Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-admits-the-social-network-isnt-social.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook admitted something that should have been front-page news.<\/p>\n<p>In an FTC antitrust filing, Meta revealed that only 7% of time on Instagram and 17% on Facebook is spent actually socializing with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>The rest?<\/p>\n<p>Algorithmically selected content. Short-form video. Engagement optimized by AI.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t a philosophical confession. It was a legal one. But it quietly confirms what many of us have felt for years:<\/p>\n<p>What we still call \u201csocial networks\u201d are not social.<\/p>\n<p>They are attention machines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/facebook-admits-the-social-network-isnt-social\">Continue reading \u201cFacebook Admits the Social Network Isn\u2019t Social\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook admitted something that should have been front-page news. In an FTC antitrust filing, Meta revealed that only 7% of time on Instagram and 17% on Facebook is spent actually socializing with friends and family. The rest? Algorithmically selected content. Short-form video. Engagement optimized by AI. This wasn\u2019t a philosophical confession. It was a legal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,1496,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-information-science","category-law","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}