What happened before FB were forums and forums had the same problems that FB had but forums had humans that ran them and usually volunteer moderators that enforced rules over the content. Nothing on forums passed scrutiny. Forums had flamewars and other issues but in the end they ended up causing a lot fewer problems than FB. We need to go back to forums and ditch FB. The social network version of forums is massive, unwieldy and unenforceable. I mean even Reddit is better in terms of enforcing rules than FB is.
I agree the problems are mostly the same but Facebook also has an Eternal September problem of introducing gullible baby boomers to this stuff at a larger scale than we've ever seen before.
There are so many more problems with Facebook than with Forums. There will always be another Cambridge Analytica. Facebook will always be caught selling data in ways that people do not approve. The entire business model of Facebook is to sell information about the account holders.
Maybe I misunderstand what you’re saying, but people looking for jobs often temporarily change their names or disable social media accounts when looking for professional jobs. Dozens of my good friends did this out of college and told employers they didn’t use social media because they didn’t want them seeing it.