It worked pretty well for what it was created to do

Which is the unknown variable in this conversation.

Say, for my ends social media never worked well.

It pains me to communicate with many (by my measure) friends and acquaintances, knowing that those are basically DMs on a site ran by somebody and hundreds (or maybe thousands) of employees can just read those DMs. Writing personal things there, because people refuse to be worried about being likely eavesdropped on.

In general the worst prison is the one you’ve built for yourself and locked yourself in. And to learn to sing one has to start singing.