Banished to the Hinterlands! Part 2

To be clear, I didn’t care about my Facebook termination and banishment. If I had, I wouldn’t have let it happen. Facebook is a boon to the US intelligence community and Zuckerberg is happy to coordinate cultural mandates via his platform. But that’s not the least of it. FB – rebranded as Meta – is the world’s largest online social database. Many years ago, I recognized it for what it was, a captive audience that needed to hear about my best-selling books so I could get richer. Which I did. I sold a few books but nothing to shout about. As FB became increasingly popular and was revealed as a data mining operation for the CIA, I began to have second thoughts.

Why do so many people have a FB ID? Because it’s free. Endorphins are released when personal information is punched in, a sense of satisfaction is achieved, and a digital ego is formed. You put up a silly-ass billboard online and FB helps you do that. Their pay-off is your data.

Why should they have all this info about me and I have no idea who they are? As you can gather, I think all this data-driven ego-stroking public display of portrayed self is a fake chase anyway. Granted, there are millions of accounts centered on pets and kids and grandkids, all equally boring and likely a waste of time. You can sell your homemade knick-knacks or, in my case, books, but you can’t keep it a secret unless you make up bogus accounts in order to preserve anonymity, which is what I did.

So, I’ve got all these accounts running – even the one that was terminated. Yes, I can still access the page and make posts on it and demean my enemies. What? You might ask? But you’re banned!. Account terminated! How can TommyBoy do that? It’s not fair! Well, I’m not going to tell you how that works. I will remind you that I was involved with computers and networks and electronic systems long before most of you were born, so this banning of accounts and free speech doesn’t really work on me. At least, not on FB.

Anyhoo, I’m still selling books on FB, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Apple, Sony, and more, both domestic and international. Life is good here. How about there? How about them apples?