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My WHY (To Blog)

Posted on by Pageflipme

If you are interested in any more explanation on why I started this than the image + caption below, you can catch up on my first post on it (that includes some good links on stuff to watch) HERE: My WHY (A Blog About The Blog)

Because I have NEVER liked being told what to do

(or think, or say, or pretty much anything else)

and never will.

Spoiler Alert: I still don’t.

THIS blog site opened in 2019.

While many people are using countless platforms to communicate and a good old-fashioned blog can seem like something ‘old people’ do, I’ll tell you my main reason for choosing it (aside from the fact that I AM old in a lot of ways!), which is this:

Everything here belongs to me and I own it forever and it’s ALL MINE.

Just like #SammyHagar says.

And we should definitely listen to him because he clearly knows things.

Sammy has been having a good time.

Let’s be more like Sammy 😆

As a matter of fact, let’s listen to him right now. Then come back to me.

You’re welcome.

Ahhhh…wasn’t that fun?

I was talking to a young-ish (early 30s) adult the other day and he came up. Can you believe she didn’t know who that was? She clearly wasn’t raised right, poor thing. That’s what made me think of this now. Welcome to my brain.

Back to the point.

I have social media. I understand the purpose and agree that it can be useful. I mean, I CAN be found HERE:

What I don’t agree with is how we are spied on. It’s getting even creepier, too.

If you really want to get in the know, or at least more informed, watch “The Creepy Line” or “The Great Hack” (both documentaries, both on Netflix), or “Shadow Government” on Prime (this one was released in 2008, so you can only imagine the advances since then but it was infuriating enough).

I also don’t agree with the control the platforms have over what we see and how and when we see it, and the constant algorithm changes. Since most are “free” (although there is no such thing), we have to agree that they can do whatever they choose however they choose to do it with our information.

I don’t know about you, but I prefer to make my own choices for myself, thankyouverymuch.

And now there is SnapChat and TikTok and specific sites just for rants, just for pics, just for promoting your business. They’ll keep changing and I’m exhausted.

Remember Classmates and MyLife and MySpace? Neither do most other people. Those are where social media started, and NO ONE uses them now.

So a blog could be my main hub from here on out. Things can always be shared from it to other sites, but what is mine stays MINE. I paid for it and it is all copyrighted and there is no worry about algorithms and changing platforms and readers can see whatever they want, whenever they want.

If YOU want to stay updated, follow the blog.

If YOU want to share here, be a guest blogger.

You know I live to serve and just want you to be happy.

Question: What do you use to communicate with people and why?

Posted in BadAssery, The REAL

My WHY (A Blog About The Blog)

Posted on by Pageflipme

Because I have NEVER liked being told what to do

(or think, or say, or pretty much anything else)

and never will.

I am sure there are people who will wonder “why blog”?

We already have immediate and constant connection by phone/text/email and countless social media networks……do we really need another ‘thing’ to keep up with?

That answer is an easy one. NO, we really do NOT.

So…..the answer(s) of WHY I decided to blog anyway are for 2 reasons:

  1. Friends get busy and tired and have their own stuff going on (most of my friends are bad@sses and are always involved in something) and don’t really need to hear my every thought right when I have them (that’s exhausting even for me), so calling/texting them is kind of forcing a way into their moments and causes pressure to respond when not everything requires a response
  2. Social media platforms have gotten entirely too nosey and waaaaaaaayyyy too controlling

But mainly the second one.

Now, I realize that we have to give something to get something.  That is actually one of the life lessons I believe in learning as early as possible.  Nothing is REALLY free.  Someone had to pay for it, even when we don’t see it with our eyes in that exact moment.  So the fact that all social media platforms are all free to use should tell us they are going to expect something out of it later.

If you really want to get in the know, or at least more informed, watch “The Creepy Line” or “The Great Hack” (both documentaries, both on Netflix as of the date of this writing).

We are all bothered by the security breaches and constant algorithm changes and how we are spied on to manipulate our spending habits.  What bothers me even more than the intrusion is the control they want to have over pretty much everything.

You probably know exactly which one I am talking about, too.

We choose our network of connections, we like certain topics of interest, we have the ability to report fakes and offensive content – but then the moderators decide to do whatever they want to do with this information, ignoring our feedback almost entirely.

Since when does AI get to decide which people’s conversations I think are most relevant – isn’t that what I did when I chose my network of people to begin with? Since when is it right that some nameless, faceless bots get to decide scammers and animal cruelty pics are allowed but a set of back office keyboard warriors will block a too-liberal or too-conservative poster after one of their harmless little memes, just because it differs from their own personal opinions? Since when does it make sense for a robo system to decide which of my content should be seen by which friends and in which order?

The answer to all of the above is the same and it is simple and it just sucks.

Since we agreed to use something that really belongs to someone else, and that someone else has a pretty selfish (and not-so-hidden anymore) agenda.

Because I believe in walking the talk, I am slowly transitioning to other ways to communicate online.  Things I might have posted on a social site before may just be moved to blogs and websites I control (within reason of course, the search engines can still do as they wish with us) and we can talk here in the comments or HERE and I can be found in a few other places too…..

So if you WANT to stay updated, follow the blog.

If you WANT to share here, be a guest blogger.

You know I live to serve and just want you to be happy.

Again – all because I have NEVER liked or even tolerated being told what to think, do, or say – and I don’t intend to start now. Not for as long as I can still do something about it!