The Facebook opium den
Published: Mon, 09/21/20
“Why aren’t you on Facebook I cant find you anywhere on there. everyone should have a social media presence, where is yours?"
Answer:
The list of reasons I high-tailed it off there 2 years ago is long & distinguished.
Like, for example:
The ho'ing out of personal data.
The incessant cancelling & de-platforming.
And also the psychological, hormonal, and emotional fallout regular users are experiencing, without even realizing it, and whether they think they are "immune" to it or not - making it like a virtual version of the Old West opium dens. If you've seen the movie "Tombstone" there is a scene where Curly Bill is in just such a place that - figuratively - very accurately describes what goes on inside the mind of someone browsing their Facebook feed.
And on that note:
Anyone who has been on Yours Selfish's list a while knows I rarely - i.e., never - plug anyone or anything but my own offers, websites, books, etc, unless I am getting paid as an affiliate or benefiting in some other way.
I’m in the publishing business, not the charity business, after all.
But today I'm breaking my own rule & making an exception.
And I'm doing it for someone I don't even know.
Plus, it's for someone who's a life coach of all people.
Proof we really do live in strange times...
Anyway, "Email Players" subscriber Ken McCarthy (the undisputed "founding father" of internet marketing) sent me the link to the video below about how, as loopy as Facebook is making people now, it is only going to get infinitely worse.
It’s all by design, too.
At least, according to Facebook’s co-founder.
And with all the Captain Covid & election drama erupting, I suspect all the privacy-breaching and zombie-like addiction to likes, pings, & alerts, as well as the intelligence-butchering and virtue signaling and suicides... intimacy-butchering & mental-dulling... will accelerate at breakneck speed.
If you want to watch it, go here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXcjvL9VSc
Happy Facebooking...
Ben Settle