{"id":58035,"date":"2025-01-18T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58035"},"modified":"2025-01-18T21:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T21:41:48","slug":"facebook-goes-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58035","title":{"rendered":"Facebook goes off the rails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What to do about Facebook, the once ever-popular social media platform that has been prostituted by its zillionaire owner, Mark Zuckerberg?<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s time to announce a couple of command decisions I have made about the medium.<\/p>\n<p>I am no longer going to purchase anything from it. I did purchase a t-shirt once showing Nolan Ryan pummeling Robin Ventura in that notorious mound-charging incident that Ventura regretted immediately after running into Ryan&#8217;s fist.<\/p>\n<p>Nor am I going to engage in anyone purporting to support a political cause.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg announced recently he is doing away with<br \/>\n&#8220;fact-checkers,&#8221; relying instead on some sort of community watchdog panel. Furthermore, Zuckerberg has sidled up to Donald Trump, joining his cult cabal of MAGAites. Sheesh!<\/p>\n<p>I will use Facebook to distribute High Plains Blogger. I will do so with this post. Facebook does perform a valuable service for me by allowing me to send my blog entries to the 750 or so friends and (mostly) acquaintances I have acquired along the way. Some of them are kind enough to distribute these entries to their friend network.<\/p>\n<p>I joined Facebook around 2009, so I am pretty familiar with how it works.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, Facebook does allow me to stay in touch with actual friends and family members. I value that part of it, but I find little else of it appealing in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do about Facebook, the once ever-popular social media platform that has been prostituted by its zillionaire owner, Mark Zuckerberg? I guess it&#8217;s time to announce a couple of command decisions I have made about the medium. I am no longer going to purchase anything from it. I did purchase a t-shirt once showing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook goes off the rails<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,1676,4300],"class_list":["post-58035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58036,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58035\/revisions\/58036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}