Time for Something New

Since Facebook has now become nothing more than a marketing algorithm (oh, plus a way for any authority--your boss, your future employer, your school, your government--to keep tabs on you), I've decided to move off.

My methods for doing that are counter-intuitive. I'm going to experiment with posts through my old re-activated blog, Liberty Hill Blogger, using Twitterfeed, which should post simultaneously to my Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin accounts.

Why?

Well, first, it's a test. Does this even work? Posts I've made over the past six months via Posterous, Reeder, Mr. Reader, FlipBoard apparently weren't making it. It's difficult to tell, since all the settings for everyone's friends on everyone's Facebook accounts were changed  to the default, which is "Occasionally," when the Timeline profile went into effect.

In other words, you only see occasional posts by all your friends unless you go to every friend in your profile and change that setting. While old Facebook would let you hide an annoying friend who you didn't wish to go to the extent of un-friending, now Facebook has for some reason set you up to start by semi-hiding all of your friends.

I have heard that this setting somehow is related to the amount of commenting you and your friends were making to each other at the time just  before the Timeline profile went into effect. Well, I was on vacation  from commenting to my friends threads on Facebook at that time due to work and school commitments and so now, I am apparently fucked.  I mean I only have a hundred friends but I'm not going through every single one and changing it.

But even if I did, they still wouldn't see most or any of my posts because their settings are set the way they are.  Friends are people I engage with and who engage me. So now Facebook prevents that. Which I thought was the whole purpose of Facebook.

It's the lack of feedback, of engagement, that's bugging me. It's time to move off to a different social medium with more possibility of engagement and move off into real world social contacts like I have done as a journalist and musician in the past 6 months. Time to take that farther

My intention is to leave Facebook connected but to start using Twitter exclusively. Google+ is even more exclusionary-based than Facebook so that's out, though I have an account.

I'll post anything that I find that is interesting without regard to how it might affect my employment in the corporate world that has taken over all of us and see if I can follow and retweet others.

I'm @restless94110, here goes.

"May you live in interesting times."  -- Chinese curse.