Update: After watching Mark Zuckerberg’s press conference, wearing his $900K watch, I decided to delete all Meta apps off of all my devices.
That’s not quite the whole story. This only happened after the following:
- My daughter said she deleted the Facebook app.
- Then, while listing items for sale on Facebook Market place, their system apparently got hacked and someone in Vietnam who tried to use my ad account to advertise something. So they flagged MY payment method. This meant I couldn’t “boost” any of my ads. After changing my payment method and then a month of trying to explain I wasn’t a bad guy to Facebook help desk, I gave up. Worst customer service on the Interwebs imo.
- My disenchantment with Facebook crystallized when I realized they were deprioritizing anything controversial or most everything else that wasn’t being “boosted”.
Original post:
I like a lot of people have become disenchanted with social media. It seems, in the last year or two, Facebook has instituted a “Pay To Play” policy. In short, if you don’t pay, the people that are more likely to like your post will not even see it if you don’t, “Pay To Play”. Yes, they are charging just for likes now. I am not the only artist that has noticed.
Facebook are a business. They can do what they want. They can change their name to the Mayan character for parrot for all I care. I think they are being greedy.
I am not quitting Social Media yet but I am going to concentrate on creating more original content here and then linking to it.
(Picture for interest – “Flashes” digital art inspired by my visit to the Ophthalmologist)