But it's more than that, I think. People are genuinely interested in networking. I suspect that there will be future enhancements that would, for example, allow users to find other user accounts in their Congressional District.
That is one of the reasons a follow-back culture has taken hold. Reciprocity is a pretty big deal. No one expects Don Jr to follow back, but they certainly expect Joe Blow to do so.
A "follows you" mechanism is soon to come into play so people can identify which of their followers didn't follow back, and can decide whether to keep following them or not.
A better ‘search’ feature would be nice too.
For example, if you wanted to search for high-school friends in facebook you would get a list of ANYONE in the country with that name... useless for finding any specific person.
Or a search by name and/or maiden name and location and etc... I have been unable to locate my first high school sweetheart.
There is a site called ‘classmates’ (a .com) that lets you do some great stuff but their main focus seems to be to sell you more stuff- not provide you with a service you find useful (without a ton of effort). Its a pain in the a$$ website to use.
Whatever they are doing, its probably a good thing.
Parler was hit by spambots immediately, because they did not do a good job of this.