Opinion: What broke the internet

Nary a day passes by when I/we don't scroll past 51683 posts requesting or advising to make something viral. We have to “like or share” for our redemption and to prove our humanity, unofficial SMEs in every subject area are rampant, any biased topic will fill our feeds based on other biased topics we've discussed, and entertainment news “trumps” current events.The internet is officially broken. TheFacebook.com broke it. Let me tell you why.There are a number of articles that I have seen that try to correct this behavior (How to stop sharing fake news stories,by Awesomely Luvvie)  but the number of sites to no avail, we can find our friends sharing emotional headlines from websites without any proof of being a credible news source. Daily, on any given social media platform we can see rants ranging from ideas on white devil science, who's lives matter, what rights who has and when they have them, or the level of whoreness displayed by attire, what the news is/isn't showing us, and the list goes on.Through talks with my sister, I came to know of this site called “thefacebook.com” where you could see classmates and add friends. After a couple of months of requests, my school had been added. I signed in with my school email, the only requirement for registration - a school email that we also had to verify, and became a member. I found a picture, a high school graduation photo, ran to the library and scanned it in, and then uploaded it...then rotated it until it pointed in the right direction, and I had a cute profile picture. I added all of my info, spent hours perfecting my bio and over the next couple of months added every last Ashley Nichole' Curry that I could find. Facebook was a good thing. There were groups, and friends...and your profile. Facebook helped people like me, who are socially awkward, see people.A few short years later, there began to be the buzz of twitter; shortly thereafter Facebook adapted a timeline and status updates. Soon after, they removed the 140 character restriction. However there was also the buzz of MySpace, who's personalization and open membership allowed the internet mixtapes to flourish and top friends validated relationships. Then it dropped the “The” after obliterating all social media sites, aside from twitter.Soon enough, I began to get Facebook invites from people who were not in college, and had never been. I saw high schoolers. I was comfortable with the idea because, we could still share information and network. Then I saw more and more non-college, non-high school, older people on Facebook. Easier link and website sharing, as well as timelines.Fast forward, we have Twitterfinger beef, Twitterfinger celebrities, and Twitterfinger president. People are losing their lives due to what they posted on the internet. We have constant overshare of false news from non-credible sources. We have Google and Wikipedia Doctors. There is also a level of cyberbullying that is constantly leading to real life-in person bullying and suicide. then there are the people that read one site and form a whole frame of thought based off of it, regardless of the validity of thesite. We have racist, xenophobic, nationalistic, sexist, misogynistic rants supported by research based on like minded researchers.I blame Facebook, who single handedly broke the internet. Facebook has absorbed features or the complete brand of every social site that has come along. It has swallowed and killed every bit of individuality that ever existed (my opinion).