So many things to say about Facebook, but, I’m saving those for my Circle of Trust: Facebook post.

In the interim, the facts are as follows:

Somehow, Facebook has gotten me mixed up with someone who gives a foch about the ads they spew.

In the not-too-distant past, Facebook insulted me with ad for “Black Online College”, because, I guess, I wasn’t good enough for regular online college.

These days, it is loading up my “advertisers you have interacted with” list with a bunch of companies I don’t know, would never engage with, not give a kaka about.

I never click on any ad.

Never.

For me, Facebook is run out of a dedicated VM in a browser connected to a Facebook-specific VPN on a server at the Orbiting O’Odua.

Not from my desktop!

I have never installed any Facebook app.

Even my Instagramming is done from an iPad with just the Apple News app installed.

That’s it. Period.

Yes, that’s how much I truly have Facebook’s nefarious snooping!

I removed over 300 of those ad firms from my ad list last week, and just now removed 175 or so.

¡No mas!

Going forward, I will attempt to game Facebook in the same way it is robbing it’s advertisers: by feeding it bullcrap.

I will start by doing the following, then amp it up.

1)   I am going to download my Facebook archive.

2)   I will reduce my time on Facebook to 10 minutes a day, at 9.00 PM or later daily.

3)   I won’t post anything of value outside of personal announcements

4)   I will inform my family and close friends of this decision, and give them a way to reach me.

5)   I will cull my Facebook friends list immediately.

a)   It goes without saying that my friends and family are safe.

b)   By friends, I mean you folks who can call me anytime. Select list, but you’re my friends. I’m always open for, and to you.

c)    If we haven’t interacted in the past year or longer: unfriend.

d)   If we are friends from the nascent days of Facebook, and that’s it? Unfriend.

e)   If all we are, are business acquaintances? Unfriend.

f)    Any other criterion that pops into my melon. Unfriend.

6)   Whenever I have the downtime, I will randomly select a month from my Facebooking history, and then delete EVERYTHING there, but one, which will serve as a ‘marker’ for that month

7)   I’m still thinking…

Let me get to it.

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