I'm not sure when I actually joined Facebook. I know I did it once initially, and hardly used it. It just wasn't time for me to take it seriously. Then a year or two later it made sense, and if I recall correctly, I had abandoned and cancelled that first account so I had to rejoin under a new account, which is still the current one. I think I've had it close to ten years now, which seems a very long time. As for how it used to be, I don't really remember much difference. The new crap like the insane population of bots, and now of course the AI shit, those things are obvious. But for me, it's been the same basic thing in the time I've been on.