OH man, when you start to understand even the tip of the iceberg of how much data is being collected about us, and how we are being swayed… it is actually frightening.
i’m using an archaeologist’s brush on the bones of this thing… thats how little i am digging in… and i KNOW a new level of freaked out.
and maybe its all innocent, just marketing, you know? just businesses trying to sell their wares, at its simplest…
But when i browse rotary dial phones on my phone, and then facebook decides to do the same, and instagram suddenly feels i should maybe check out these new phone sites… its all part of a mad sweep affecting my entire world. and this one? this was an experiment.
lets talk political persuasion. i’m liberal, all the news i see is horrified by our president. he’s crazy, he’s doom. i’m conservative, all the news i see is horrified by the liberals. they are crazy, if they get power, they’ll lock the government down in gridlock.
hm. huh.
the larger question of free will vs. data manipulation is legit.
especially as we roll into the Mecca of Mega Consumerism, otherwise known as the Birth of Jesus.
seriously, the hypocrisy of some religious folks right here is HIGH. but aside from that. ( i can’t claim hypocrisy on this one because my faith is only mustardseed big and i make no claims to be a true believer… there are millions of things i am hypocritical about, but not this one..)…
when the digression is bigger on the inside than the subject from which you have digressed? what then?
BUT ASIDE FROM THAT.
what do your kids want? did they see it on a commercial? did they see it in a youtube? who sold it to them? because someone DID… directly.
i’ve been trying to learn the facebook ads system. facebook. that which people my age look at almost daily, if they have it at all. so, an advertiser makes note of your age, preferences, connections and shows you an ad. if you click on it, you enter a new select group, which they can target with another series of ads… its all automated, there’s nobody looking at you as an individual… you’re just a stat.
if you’ve ever looked at a gap ad, you’re on a list… if you looked at that cool boot in the middle of your page, in that super cool green color, you’re on a list… those cool science box clubs that arrive once a month? you’re on the box club list…(i’ve seen it!) i can target any list or demographic i want to …so so specifically… and just show my ads to you…
imagine what i could do if i had a political persuasion and an audience receptive to my point of view. imagine if i particularly wanted to sway them.
its been proven time and time again that ads work.
time and time.
just be careful out there friends. what you think you want, might not be a free will decision… your data collection has commenced.
just be careful.
(if you click on MY ads, here on this blog, you’ll give me some dollars, so go ahead, leap into the fray, if you already live there….otherwise… )
You know what is absolutely AMAZING? I wrote this the same day all of Facebook’s scandals scandalized, and was still unaware. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/podcasts/the-daily/facebook-zuckerberg-sandberg-russia-election-data.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Fpodcasts&action=click&contentCollection=podcasts®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection
my favorite scaryuncle boss? Took all his ads off facebook this morning… and thats why he’s my favorite scaryuncle boss.
