{"id":3572,"date":"2019-01-06T12:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2019-01-06T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T17:26:46","slug":"what-has-facebook-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2019\/01\/06\/what-has-facebook-become\/","title":{"rendered":"What has Facebook become?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When considering the deletion or deactivation of a Facebook account you will ask yourself, what do I need here? What do I expect? Well here&#8217;s what you won&#8217;t get from Facebook anymore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genuine interaction with people you actually know.\u00a0 In fact many you know in your day to day life don&#8217;t follow you on Facebook.\u00a0 Instead you are posting to a group of relatives or those who&#8217;ve found commonality in your political opinions, drama in personal life or shared interests.<\/li>\n<li>Advertising that is relevant to you.\u00a0 Facebook is now saturated with ads that are straight scams.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more dangerous to buy from an ad on Facebook than almost any other website including eBay and others saturated with Chinese knock-offs.<\/li>\n<li>Interaction with your children or grandchildren.\u00a0 Almost anyone under 20 is not on Facebook.\u00a0 They hate it.\u00a0 This is good.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t encourage them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What Facebook has become is a haven for drama.\u00a0 Old ladies and single moms pouring their desperation into heart felt memes and re-posted articles for attention.\u00a0 At least a lot of the pout lip selfies from single women who mostly deserve to be single have subsided.\u00a0 They&#8217;re learning, desperation and scorn pity is not attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Now I admit on a rare occasion someone posts something on Facebook that is of interest.\u00a0 It&#8217;s usually as simple as an event notice or sports highlight.\u00a0 It&#8217;s certainly not worth 2 hours a day to any guy.\u00a0 But women can&#8217;t put it away.\u00a0 They enjoy what has become a platform for prying into the drama of each others lives.\u00a0 Seeking sympathy and calls for &#8220;prayers&#8221; with vague bullshit posts like &#8220;Call for prayers, not sure how I&#8217;m going to make it through the latest&#8221; followed by a bunch of comments with little prayer hands clapped together and 40+ &#8220;Likes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a friend wins a half marathon and barely gets 10 &#8220;Likes&#8221;.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because people genuinely don&#8217;t like to see others succeed.\u00a0 Unless it&#8217;s some vague fem movement or cause or success then the &#8220;Likes&#8221; roll in.\u00a0 But a genuine accomplishment, hell no.\u00a0 That makes people feel pathetic about themselves because truth is, hate it or not, most people are indeed lazy, predictable and boring with a false sense of being entitled or deserving.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tread on this illusion.\u00a0 Prop the lies they tell themselves for self-relevance and be &#8220;Liked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This, without any sugar on top is what facebook has become: A perpetuating platform of delusion and self-pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When considering the deletion or deactivation of a Facebook account you will ask yourself, what do I need here? What do I expect? Well here&#8217;s what you won&#8217;t get from Facebook anymore: Genuine interaction with people you actually know.\u00a0 In fact many you know in your day to day life don&#8217;t follow you on Facebook.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2019\/01\/06\/what-has-facebook-become\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What has Facebook become?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}