Todays - What Grinds my gears

Kawasaki Jimbo · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Karma :

Effin’ Facebook. I know it’s for old folk these days and I stay on it to keep tabs on a small number of acquaintances who’d probably vanish from my life otherwise, and without consequence. Maybe I should let them go. Still, I stick around.

Search for something on the web and it’s immediately reflected in Facebook stories or ads. I even suspect Facebook listens in to verbal conversations in the presence of the device because of the way subsequent posts crop up.

Now I’m lured to respond to the rash of political posts from gobby unknowns who don’t share my political views; I wonder if Facebook is indulging in socio-political engineering and I’m on their wrong side. The left wing Facebook groups have begun to require some kind of pledge to join and comment, otherwise your view isn’t heard.

What a sad world. I feel I’ve let my nieces down by allowing such censorship and bias in the 21st century but what could I do?

Edit: make a post on the aforementioned sites and they’ll allow it if they think there’s a critical response their affiliates can make, but make a point they can’t invalidate and it won’t be allowed.