FACEBOOK EXODUS
Time to reprogram my own psyche before it's too late 🧠 🧑💻
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
I've had enough of Facebook.
Or should I say,
I've had enough of LifeLog.
Did you know that the innocuous Facebook started out life as a US military data gathering operation called LifeLog?
Did you know Facebook is an end product of the Mass Digital Data Systems (MDDS) initiatives funded by the NSA and CIA?
Did you know government agencies can effectively predict and control grassroots revolutions and protest movements, thanks to the insights gained from Project Camelot?
Of course you didn't, and if you did, you may as well have not, because you kept using the thing anyway, didn't you? (By YOU, I mean ME).
Do you think using Facebook is effecting you negatively in any ways?
Do you find it addictive?
How's the old attention span holding up?
Do you think your synapses are firing faster or slower today than they were in a pre-Facebook time?
I've made the decision to wean myself off and, soon, abandon Facebook, Instagram, and all Meta related services all together.
Instagram will be a hard one.
It's a platform I actually really like and find a lot less controversial and time wasting than Facebook.
Its a lot more interest-centric, with better algorithms in place to actually show you what you like to see.
But, as it serves as yet another covert front-end to data harvesting, it's gotta go.
It's a personal choice, but one which I feel holds many merits and liberations, of which I shall explain further, and I would encourage others to join me.
It's time to take the power back, and become an active participant in the war for control of the human mind, rather than a shocked bystander.
ATTEEEEN HUT!!
THE GRAND DECEPTION
Yep, the whole world was cunningly fooled into voluntarily surrendering every iota of data and every personal detail about themselves to be stored indefinitely within the expansive data centers of Meta, as well as the CIA and the NSA, to be used for whatever purpose they so desire.
These purposes range from the demure to the diabolic.
But before we get into that, here's a lil background information about the digital platform which has taken the worlds attention, and data, hostage.
It all starts with the CIA, the NSA, NASA, and DARPA.
Not a great start, right?
DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and they are easily one of the more sinister organizations in the American governmental pantheon.
DARPA (formally ARPA) is the innovation branch of the US Department Of Defense.
Its main task is to carry out (unknowing) taxpayer funded, high risk, high reward ventures, such as the invention of the Internet we know and love today.
Yep, this is the same organization that initiated MILNET and ARPANET, the distant ancestors of our beloved internet.
DARPA developed the protocols to enable connected computers to communicate across multiple networks back in 1973.
They called it "The Internetting Project".
By 1983, the system was divided into two constituents, ARPANET and MILNET.
ARPANET was intended for civilian use, and MILNET was for the use of military and defense personnel and agencies.
In 1990, the ARPANET project was officially decommissioned, and the internet was privatized to a consortium of corporations including IBM and MCI Inc.
Basically, six corporations control 90% of the worlds mainstream media, as well as the global communications and telecommunications infrastructure, and also the satellites, devices, hardware, software and operating systems used to enable it all.
That's one pretty fucking decent sized web of surveillance and control, if I do say so myself.
Now, let's fast forward to the 21st century....
LifeLog was a program developed by DARPA to create a permanent and detailed, searchable digital record of a persons entire life.
This included everything from what they watched, listened too, read, and, of course, purchased, to the geographical movements and human connections they had.
However, they knew that the average person wouldn't be overly enthusiastic about openly divulging every minor detail of their private lives over to a shady military organization.
So, they had to engineer the situation to make people give the data willingly.
Yep, you guessed it.
Mark Zuckerberg gave birth to his illegitimate child with DARPA, whom he named "Facebook" in 2004.
Facebook was founded in February of 2004, the exact same month and year that the LifeLog project was closed down.
That's not suspicious or conspicuous at all....
That is, maybe if you are blind, deaf, AND stupid.
These same players are also responsible for funding Google into existence.
So, with what you now know about the dishonest origins of Facebook, are you still happy to use it?
That was enough to set me on my path of Meta emancipation, but, I'm afraid to say my praiseworthy reader, it only gets worse....
HACKING THE HUMAN PSYCHE
Facebook thrives on controversy, and more often than not I find myself being lured into the self righteous trap of responding to some outrageous claim or blatant falsehood.
It's in my nature.
Although the wisdom of Buddhism/Memes has taught me that the secret to a happy life is to not argue with fools, at the same time, I'm fucking outspoken, and, I don't consider every single person with an opposing opinion to my own to be labeled as foolish.
Yet there I am, my thumb defying the laws of physics, injecting valuable energy into debating some triviality or otherwise inconsequential notion.
At least I realize this and am actively working to combat my condition.
Most don't, won't, or simply can't.
Facebook doesn't care if you are right or wrong, as long as it fits in with the narrative they are helping to push.
It seems to encourage and exacerbate verbal conflicts, if anything.
Share a piece of art you've put your heart and soul into, get a few likes and maybe a measly comment.
Write something which is little more than a negative or divisive opinion, and watch the obstacles on the path to engagement vanish instantly, as your bitter moment of venting goes viral and is presented on a fine silver platter to all digital diners...
I've seen this over and over again, to the point it would be ridiculous and illogical to suggest it wasn't in the design of the application itself.
Thankfully, we now know that it is.
This is where the mystical creatures called Algorithms rear their ugly, administrative heads.
Obviously, algorithms are not bad in themselves.
They are simply commands, protocols, and codes made to meet/identify specific parameters and react accordingly.
In layman's terms, algorithms are simply instructions or directions which manage the daily operations of a program, application, or even a machine.
And what we have here are argumentative algorithms programmed to instate maximum drama, objection, and reactionary responses.
Yay.
Just what the world always needed, more outlets to argue with one another and accomplish sweet fuck all.
Sure, Facebook isn't all bad.
I've found a lot of work through the platform, and met many great humans. It's definitely good for connecting people and community based implications such as networking and organizing events.
However, I was always careful to make sure my income wasn't coming directly or exclusively from the platform or work found through the platform. Imagine losing your entire income because Zuck doesn't like your opinion on Vaccines or some shit.
Zuck that.
I would imagine Facebook is providing tens of thousands (maybe more) of people with their sole source of income currently.
And that's allgood, as long as you are not an outspoken individual who simply refuses to let bullshit travel through unchecked.
Like me, lol.
It would be similar to being gagged with a stack of filthy fifty dollar notes.
Zuck that.
With the application of AI technology, Facebook will become a whole new beast. The ability to easily process and store ever expanding amounts of personalized data, biometrics, voices, even body language subtleties and personal routines/habits, would grant them the ability to digitally (or holographically) reproduce any user for any purpose they so desire.
I see people all the time (seems to be mostly older users) posting privacy clauses and copyright statements, some even going as far to claim making a simple post somehow reprograms the established algorithm.
Aha, if only the system was that simple and honest.
The second you download the app (or simply use it, as it comes factory as bloatware on most new smartphones now) you have given the Facebook machine permanent permission to store and utilize all of your user data for whatever purposes it sees fit. At best, the data is simply sold to corporations and companies to be utilized in targeted advertisement campaigns. At worst, its fed to government agencies for the purpose of being used against you should you ever become a threat to the establishment.....
It has been widely known for a long time now that the US Intelligence agencies have direct access to user data generated by most Social Media platforms and search engines, via the NSA's PRISM programme, and also, a technique called Upstream Collection.
"PRISM enabled the NSA to routinely collect data from Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, and Apple, including email, photos, video and audio chats, Web-browsing content, search engine queries, and all other data stored on their clouds, transforming the companies into witting co-conspirators. Upstream collection, meanwhile, was arguably even more invasive. It enabled the routine capturing of data directly from private sector Internet infrastructure - the switches and routers that shunt internet traffic worldwide, via the satellites in orbit and the high-capacity fibre-optic cables that run under the ocean".
This is an excerpt from Ed Snowden's groundbreaking autobiographical book, Permanent Record.
Highly recommended reading for anybody interested in the digital privacy and freedom movement, governmental overreach, hacking, and the lengths these organizations will go to in order to prevent their secret wrongdoings from being exposed.
Edward Snowden was one of the first to reveal this startling revelation to the public. He sacrificed his freedom and career because of his stoic belief that privacy is a fundamental right in any democracy, and the US government and its nefarious agencies had been wantonly abusing that right for decades by illegally collecting and storing data on every human being on the planet, including its own citizens, which was deemed highly unconstitutional.
And look where it got him.
Honesty is not appreciated by those who seek complete domination of the globe.
Julian Assange once said something profound that I will quote here :
"We can all write about our political issues, we can all push for particular things we believe in, we can all have particular brands of politics, but I say actually it's all bankrupt," Assange said. "And the reason it's all bankrupt, and all current political theories are bankrupt and particular lines of political thought, is because actually we don't know what the hell is going on. And until we know the basic structures of our institutions — how they operate in practice, these titanic organizations, how they behave inside, not just through stories but through vast amounts of internal documentations — until we know that, how can we possibly make a diagnosis? How can we set the direction to go until we know where we are? We don't even have a map of where we are. So our first task is to build up a sort of intellectual heritage that describes where we are. And once we know where we are, then we have a hope of setting course for a different direction. Until then, I think all political theories — to greater and lesser extents of course — are bankrupt.". An extremely apt description, which also applies to the social media corporations to some extent.
END OF THE DAY
To summarize, I don't believe the Facebook model fosters as much community as it creates division, it supports and rewards those who comply to its draconian structure and suppresses those who refuse too, the universal gathering and storage of personal data for eternity has very negative connotations and applications, it is slowly eroding the democratic rights of privacy and free speech, it knowingly utilizes algorithms which lead to social media addiction (via the Dopamine Feedback Loop mechanism), and, maybe worst of all, it is literally hacking the human psyche and re-programming our brains.
Check out this video of Facebook co-creator Sean Parker talking about them having to vote on whether to include the Dopamine Feedback Loop mechanism in the design of the application. They were outvoted.
https://youtu.be/R7jar4KgKxs
So far, we have already witnessed the collective human attention span and IQ levels reducing significantly.
Some scientists suggest this is due largely to over use of search engines and the instantaneous availability of information.
People don't work things out or remember them anymore, they just Google it.
As a result, the brain is exercised less and less and a diminishing IQ level is the direct result.
With Facebook, I feel the saturation of mediocre media, music, art, and articles it provides to users is slowly damaging the overall quality of human creativity. Music and Art are becoming something which is expected for free by the consumers, and due to ever shortening attention spans, the duration and life spans of artworks and musical pieces are suffering.
The AI madness just adds an entirely new soulless element to the world of Art.
So, in essence, Facebook is pretty bad in terms of its ulterior motives or deeper purposes which include rampant data collection, blanket suppression of free speech and open democratic discussions, narrative control, protest and grassroots movement identification and prediction, and probably a whole host of other nasty shit we ain't even aware of yet 🙆♂️
Obviously, not everyone knows or even cares about this stuff, and I can see why because it is fairly depressing realizing you are an unwitting pawn in the creation of a global intelligence network encompassing every human being on this fine planet.
But that aside, millions of people use the app innocently everyday, seeing what their friends and family have been up to, sharing food or pet related content, checking news, or just mindlessly browsing.
To be fair, most platforms are the same, Twitter performs very similar suppression of topics and harvesting of data.
Google (and thus, YouTube) are also no different.
Google won't index anything controversial by design, which means it becomes increasingly more diffucult to find information on particular topics, and leaves many users unable to find the knowledge they seek, giving birth to the "Dead Internet" theory.
My solution to this problem of internet dominance and control of information, is to use as much open source and decentralized programs and platforms as possible.
These applications have no central authority controlling the operations, and are run/owned by the users themselves.
A couple of alternative, freedom based apps I have been using for a while now, and highly recommend, are Minds and Mastodon.
Check them out and see what you think.
Knowing what I know and holding the principles and values that I do, my Facebook days are well and truly numbered.
I'll even leave YouTube eventually, once I've got my own website going.
The very thought of permanently deleting your Facebook account and losing all those images, videos, memories, connections, and interactions is too much for most to bear, and that really is the trap, and possibly the most cunning aspect of the software itself.
Personally, as a writer, musician and artist, many would say failing to utilize these major platforms will cause you to suffer in terms of reach, audience, and engagement.
To them I would reply, what are you really doing art for?
As I generally include topics of a controversial nature in my content, I am heavily shadowbanned on these platforms already, which means I would need to alter my subject matter and not ask the hard questions I love to ask, and not engage other minds with provocative and revolutionary thought and ideas.
Zuck that.
Thank you to everybody who made it right through that!!!
I think it’s very important we make smart decisions moving forward into a digitally controlled world.
Only you have the power to dictate what and where your attention and energy goes to…. Use it wisely!!!
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REZZY, OUT 🛸