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Haugen Does
Until the lockdown, I had no Facebook account. That was a happy time. Even as an internet marketer, I was going to lengths not to use Facebook. I have averaged around 3 million new visitors on my websites every month, all without Facebook. Unfortunately, the lockdown came and out of pure boredom, I have registered my new Facebook account. That was the exact moment when shit hits the fan. Naturally, being quickly scanned and analysed by Facebook freaks, I immediately noticed that I was force-fed the posts that worked on my nerves and provoked my angry response. Every time this happened, I had my account restricted. For the time my account was and is right now, my feed shows me mellow content, which will bore me to death. As soon as my account becomes unrestricted, the content which makes me boiling starts rolling in.
Being aware of the methods they practice, I suspected something’s fishy here. Because most of my friends and acquaintances love Facebook, they said I am the paranoid one here whenever I ask for their opinion. So I have researched Facebook and quickly found out so much about it that I could be writing for months, and there would be no end. Nobody would like me by now if all I was writing about was how bad is Facebook. So I write about it only when they deserve it.
Then I had another close look; I had seen the bait they were sending to my screen; I gracefully took the bait, in a controlled manner, I commented on one of those posts…