Today, my Facebook account was blocked. Apparently, the good people of Facebook believe they have a right to not only view my personal information to verify me, but also they force the using of a name we might prefer not to be available openly. Our user names were chosen with care. They represented who we actually were, to the friends we shared our lives with. Nobody on my Facebook at any time has ever thought I'm in real life a fucking sailing boat built in the sixties called 'Mystic." Not a fucking one.
No, what those names did do, was represent the real people we are while protecting us from aspects of our lives we preferred not to have access to ur personal interactions. Simple really, yet too simple for Facebook to grasp of course, since they became the data gathering tool of the NSA and others.
At no point in my life does the need to play angry birds or talk the usual crap to my friends online require me to give up my privacy.
We were there when all this socialising online first began. We were the trailblazers, happy to tolerate all the fuck ups as Facebook found it's feet.
Now Facebook, you have become some sort of governmental agency, spying and noseying on those same people that made you successful.
I have no problem and no option in telling you to "Go fuck yourselves."
If my membership of all these years without a single complaint isn't good enough for you I shall take my shit elsewhere. Byeeeee.
If there is anyone out there that feels a desperate urge to read my ramblings, I can be found on,
Steemit. A blogging system that actually pays it's members to post content, like and comment.
It doesn't bombard users with Advertisements and doesn't play overseer for the government either.
Steemit will grow and grow. It will develop and learn. What it will never be is the patsy that Facebook has become.
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I feel your annoyance and discontentment. You're right, and fortunately so..We have a great option here on Steemit! :)
We do indeed Foodie. I think a lot of people are feeling the manipulation of Facebook now. Hopefully, as they leave they head this way.
I never really felt it so much because I was simply not thinking about those stuff while on FB..but since I've been on Steemit, I've rarely been on FB..the interest just fell away loll
I enjoyed playing Angry birds on there and poker. I can do it all elsewhere.
We have travelled a lot and back then, things like Faceache and Skype made keeping in touch with family and friends easier.
Very true :) Faceache does make your face ache at times though ;)
If more people follow this lead, CIABook will finally see its end. I'm liking this whole decentralized movement brought about largely by blockchain technology.
I quite agree. we are not the enemy and i refuse to dance a jig for Facebook or anyone else to prove it.
I think when Synereo comes active proper, they and Steemit will destroy the old guard.
That's because facabook has no use of invalid information, they sell your data to advertisement companies and the government. Check out the post I made about this topic if you are interested:
https://steemit.com/news/@drumsta/us-court-allowed-facebook-to-track-its-users-can-it-be-that-facebook-is-the-biggest-nsa-project-ever
Hello Steemian of the day! This is a great article and I agree with you 100% with everything you said. Who needs Facebook? Not us...the Steemians! Who wants them? Not us...the Steemians! Good Riddance Facebook! Hello Stemmit...forever! :)
We joined it when it began. A much better option than Myspace etc, but boy did it get controlling? it lost everything it was ever meant to be.
It will disappear into the annals of history soon enough now Steemit has arrived.
They got controlling because they are as corrupt as the government is and working for them. The censoring is out of control....hell, they should have never been censoring in the first place! I sure hope you are right about them disappearing.
I think more and more are becoming aware of how the game is now being played. People are less inclined to be a part of their grand data mining plan.
This here, is where we make our stand I believe as long as the powers that be of steemit keep it clean.
Amen to that! :)
I could not agree with you more! :-)
Nice final post. Leaving in style. I just disabled my account and walked away.
I am about to do the same! :-)