Well Bottom Blues

This post, originally and unironically from Facebook, is a bit out of character for this blog but it wasn’t getting much traction there.

Why does @META hate the Internet? I’ve used pages here in the past for various reasons. I probably spent thousands of dollars promoting Odd Words because pages are there to lure you to pay to advertise, because they really get little or no engagement otherwise. I have a page Well Bottom Blues where my WordPress blog of the same name auto-posts. It has 99 followers. Posts are actually seen by four or five people.

That www you used to put on URLs stood for World Wide Web. Those Uniform Resource Locators were intended by Tim Burners-Lee to create a universal library of information, one without gatekeepers where everyone could participate as publisher and reader. (An aside: it took me several tries to type his name because Facebook kept popping up prompts to rage other Facebook users.)

The fact that META/Facebook (again with the pop ups trying to get me to envoke MÊTÅ AI) hidea posts in the algorithm that share URLs is the exact opposite of of what Burton-Lee intended. That is why you see “link in comments,” to work around the algorithm used to suppress information sharing. Facebook is not the what was intended by the Internet at it’s conception. It is not a tool for openly sharing imformation. It is a commercial client of the world TCP-IP network used to monetize information transactions.

I’m still here to to keep up with a handful of people, having become agoraphobic post-COVID as a result of my partners infirmity and my bi-polar related anxiety expressing as agoraphobia. There are a dozen groups I follow, mostly music, art and poetry (popup prompt DOH.) I am also on BlueSky (another user friend popup). I would miss the tenuous contact with friends and the groups, but frankly FB is increasingly an annoying place to be. If it was a. appliance I would be thinking about replacing it. And META(AI popup)/Facebook is an appliance used to communicate on the internet. It is not the only option.