I’ve been spending too much time on the internet this quarantine.<\/p>
We all have.<\/p>
Maybe the virus is starting to fade away where you live, or coming closer to a hopeful close, but here in Alabama…oh my god we are so stupid.<\/p>
I hate Facebook. I think we all do, to a degree? We love it and we hate it. We are addicted, and we wish we weren’t. The justification that it’s a way to keep connected keeps us checking in, while advertisements and algorithms adjust what we actually experience.<\/p>
If we’re really just doing it to get together…why does someone get to make money off of that?<\/p>
A group of us have been watching movies every night for the past 115 nights. We’ve been sharing memes. Recipes. Gardening mishaps and triumphs.<\/p>
Why does facebook get to sell ads and capitalize on this?<\/p>
Why do they get to choose what we see and more importantly…what we don’t see?<\/p>
I know it’s hard to pull the plug but I can’t recommend it enough. A few of us have been trying Discord. No advertisements, no weird relatives, and no algorithm hiding your favourite people’s posts (continued at https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/39374465)<\/a><\/p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been spending too much time on the internet this quarantine. We all have. Maybe the virus is starting to fade away where you live, or coming closer to a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billypettinger.com\/billythekid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}