I permanently deleted my Facebook account a month ago, and have only missed it a little because of some of the authors I used to follow there. Alas, there's no escaping modern surveillance. But there are browser add-ons (cookie managers and such) that can help to make it harder on them.
A week or so ago, I looked at a credit card bill and I realized that I had authorized an annual subscription to Greg in the amount of $150. I was wondering if it was worth it.
This one piece of yours, Greg, is worth the entire subscription, and then some. With the emphasis on “and then some.”
Greg is my brother from another mother who does a job that is so vital, the job of investigating, and bringing light to, nefarious aspects of society. We are like team players who have different assignments, all in the support of humanity’s evolution to a higher and better place.
I have been keeping this next quote in my email InBasket, from summer 2020, because until this work of yours, Greg, it was the best thing I had on the subject of the horror show that is Facebook.
I report it here because it was the seed, for me, that has sprouted into this work of yours.
Facebook quote from 2020:
The hellscape that is Facebook is the most meaningful tool of political manipulation ever devised in the history of all mankind.
Since no one has pointed it out, I will: that is the creepiest godamned picture I've seen in QUITE a while up there at the top. Good job, Greg, as I think I know that was the intention. Shiver!
I have a Facebook account because there are times, for work, that I have to consult it for client information. Other than that, everything is locked down tight with as many "Only me" selections as I can make in the settings. I know it doesn't fully inoculate me from the hazards of having an account, but apparently one doesn't even need an account to be tracked by them.
The Instagram thing of late REALLY pisses me off. Who, anywhere, anytime, thought it was a good idea to allow Instagram accounts for "kids?" And Zuck's big claim for it is that kids need to interact too, and they won't have ADS on the kids' version. As if THAT'S the problem! We aren't quite to the generation of parents that know as much as their kids about how computers and the internet work, so all of this nonsense about "parents have to APPOVE any followers on the kids' accounts" is smokescreen for the absolute inability to monitor this at all. The important thing is to get the kids online and used to it before they turn 13 and they get to see the ads -- it's a long game, like Republicans are famous for. They might as well just name it Pedogram, and be honest about it. KIDS posting PICTURES of themselves in an all but non-monitored web space. What an insanely stupid idea! But, you know, NO ADS!!!
This was so eye opening and interesting. It helped explain why I dislike FB so much, although I keep my account and just check it a few times for messages from friends. I took a great deal of pleasure SHARING this on my page today. I wonder if I'll go to FB jail now? LOL!
Fb is a pariah & I welcome the possible tech wars waged against it perhaps by a TikTok of the future. I’ve been hacked & smacked down so many times on there; that I only tepidly enter it’s unattractive, cluttered & intrusive venue to check on local musical events of which there are many in my city. Unfortunately, I sometimes miss out on local shindigs if I don’t check it. Occasionally I post music videos but was so viciously attacked by trolls masquerading as ppl I knew or mentally ill Q anons from high school, that politics isn’t even a topic on my page. When my 25 yr old daughter deleted her account 3 yrs, I had to scramble to preserve her pre pubescent postings some of which I was unable to retrieve, but I bet Zuck & mother Russia still have them.
I permanently deleted my Facebook account a month ago, and have only missed it a little because of some of the authors I used to follow there. Alas, there's no escaping modern surveillance. But there are browser add-ons (cookie managers and such) that can help to make it harder on them.
When I read your posts I realize how little I know about everything. 😱
A week or so ago, I looked at a credit card bill and I realized that I had authorized an annual subscription to Greg in the amount of $150. I was wondering if it was worth it.
This one piece of yours, Greg, is worth the entire subscription, and then some. With the emphasis on “and then some.”
Greg is my brother from another mother who does a job that is so vital, the job of investigating, and bringing light to, nefarious aspects of society. We are like team players who have different assignments, all in the support of humanity’s evolution to a higher and better place.
I have been keeping this next quote in my email InBasket, from summer 2020, because until this work of yours, Greg, it was the best thing I had on the subject of the horror show that is Facebook.
I report it here because it was the seed, for me, that has sprouted into this work of yours.
Facebook quote from 2020:
The hellscape that is Facebook is the most meaningful tool of political manipulation ever devised in the history of all mankind.
Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/rick-wilson-on-how-the-lincoln-project-gets-in-trumps-head.html
Since no one has pointed it out, I will: that is the creepiest godamned picture I've seen in QUITE a while up there at the top. Good job, Greg, as I think I know that was the intention. Shiver!
I have a Facebook account because there are times, for work, that I have to consult it for client information. Other than that, everything is locked down tight with as many "Only me" selections as I can make in the settings. I know it doesn't fully inoculate me from the hazards of having an account, but apparently one doesn't even need an account to be tracked by them.
The Instagram thing of late REALLY pisses me off. Who, anywhere, anytime, thought it was a good idea to allow Instagram accounts for "kids?" And Zuck's big claim for it is that kids need to interact too, and they won't have ADS on the kids' version. As if THAT'S the problem! We aren't quite to the generation of parents that know as much as their kids about how computers and the internet work, so all of this nonsense about "parents have to APPOVE any followers on the kids' accounts" is smokescreen for the absolute inability to monitor this at all. The important thing is to get the kids online and used to it before they turn 13 and they get to see the ads -- it's a long game, like Republicans are famous for. They might as well just name it Pedogram, and be honest about it. KIDS posting PICTURES of themselves in an all but non-monitored web space. What an insanely stupid idea! But, you know, NO ADS!!!
This was so eye opening and interesting. It helped explain why I dislike FB so much, although I keep my account and just check it a few times for messages from friends. I took a great deal of pleasure SHARING this on my page today. I wonder if I'll go to FB jail now? LOL!
Fb is a pariah & I welcome the possible tech wars waged against it perhaps by a TikTok of the future. I’ve been hacked & smacked down so many times on there; that I only tepidly enter it’s unattractive, cluttered & intrusive venue to check on local musical events of which there are many in my city. Unfortunately, I sometimes miss out on local shindigs if I don’t check it. Occasionally I post music videos but was so viciously attacked by trolls masquerading as ppl I knew or mentally ill Q anons from high school, that politics isn’t even a topic on my page. When my 25 yr old daughter deleted her account 3 yrs, I had to scramble to preserve her pre pubescent postings some of which I was unable to retrieve, but I bet Zuck & mother Russia still have them.