Explanation
Visits, likes, friend requests — and yet, no one on the other end.
Most social networks suffer from the same problem: millions of fake accounts, automatically generated content, visits, likes, friend requests — all of it produced by machines, not humans. This phenomenon has a name: the "dead internet."
The cause is simple. These platforms are open to everyone, with no filter. Anyone — or anything — can sign up, access the content, and act: post, comment, interact.
Bot farms take massive advantage of this, because nothing distinguishes them from a real user in the system's eyes.
A true social network — in the literal sense — doesn't suffer from this problem. In real life, your network is made up of people you know, who in turn know other people, and so on. Little by little, you build an extended circle — but a human one. There are no bot farms in your social circle, nor in your friends', nor in theirs.
That's exactly the principle here. Access doesn't come through an open registration, but by invitation. Each new member is introduced by someone who knows them.
Every friend added is a new bond of trust. That bond spreads naturally, and with it, the assurance that what you see was created by a real person.