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If you write a blog and never post it to Facebook will anybody read it?

My guess is no...  Let's test the hypothesis!

Facebook and similar "social" feeds feel so bad to my soul.  I find them as a total waste of time and it's time to really really delete these things once and for all. 

I've been hanging onto Instagram as I find it much less toxic.  Pictures often give off a more positive vibe than your aunts reshare of politically slanted news or your neighbor's cousin's wall of text complaining about how there is not Olive Garden within 100 miles of their house.  However, that doesn't change the fact that I am the product being sold on this Instagram.  Algorithms are being worked out to find just the right number of post to leave in between advertisements for me to feel most engaged and most likely to click.  Which news parody sites or webcomics I should like next are also constantly being updated and reconfigured based on my behaviour. 

Facebook and its subsidiaries are not the only companies with this massive soul crushing business but their the worst by far.   Bye bye.

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  1. JoshNovember 25, 2019 at 4:27 PM

    I almost forgot to comment before this dropped off my RSS.

    Yes, the internet exists outside FB :D

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