In February 2004, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US, Facebook was founded. This application has since revolutionalised human interaction in ways that were unimaginable before.
However, a former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, in December 2017, speaking at Stanford Business School, said that he feels a lot of guilt for being part of a tool that is immensely destroying the social fabric of how society operates and urges everyone to take a long break from social media.
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