Just to add to what others have said, identifying scams are very easy to spot on social media. Those tokens you see regularly on your feed aren't to be trusted. They're either scams or over hyped project been influence by paid advertisment. Scammers depends on advertising on social media because they know newbies are on those platforms in their numbers trying to look for the next Bitcoin so they can invest. Since you're not familiar with cryptocurency, just buy Bitcoin for the time been and you'll fall in love with Bitcoin and keep accumulating it until you have gotten enough for your satisfaction.

Altcoins aren't going anywhere so don't think you have missed anything. There'll be more reasonable altcoins with better blockchain in the future but for now all we have are duplicate of each other looking to sell you that their project is better than the rest meanwhile they're all trashed. Just ignore any ads you see about crypto project on social media because alot goes on there that can lead to hacking of your wallet or you losing your money to scammers. There isn't a lot of choice to make, though we have lots of cryptocurrency but your choice should be to invest in Bitcoin.