Have you noticed that just recently a lot of companies are riding roughshod over us the consumer. They tell us what we want, they tell us to pay more for services which frankly aren't worth the money. They try to tell us what to listen to, what to eat, how to dress. The most recent and vocal of these - 'you'll grow to love it - stop complaining' companies is Facebook. FB has become a part of my life. I use it to keep up with my friends all over the world. I have the FB app, I check it all the time. But get this FB I am the boss, I dictate our relationship or so I thought. With each new update I renew my privacy settings. But this last update - the one that sorts stories into an order of importance that's done by an algorithm is quite possibly the beginning of the end -for me at least. FB wants to move in with me, it wants to tell all my friends what I'm watching or listening to. It wants me to give it a timeline of my life long before FB was an idea for an exclusive ivy league network. FB sit down and listen, its not you it's me. I value my privacy, my guilty pleasures, my pandora playlist, youtube videos ect. I'm announcing a trail separation. If you haven't come to your senses in a month, I'm afraid it's over.
10/10 Moved the facebook app to the second screen on my iphone and found I don't feel compelled to check it. I'm thinking I'll stay with FB but only at the weekends unless someone messages me direct.
The playlists and videos are only if you 'like' them with an FB 'like' button or watch them via a link from FB. Otherwise it knows not what your guilty pleasures are. So you can listen to Bros safe in the knowledge that only you know ....
ReplyDeleteFunny man - I really am taking a month off though.
ReplyDelete