Monday, November 27, 2017

Facebook Presence for Est Quod Est

Everything I've been doing online over the last year has been done on Facebook. And when I say everything, I mean upwards of 90%. Facebook is easy to interface with and it has become sort of a "one-stop shop" for people with limited time to catch-up on every level of news.

So now I decided to create a Facebook presence for Est Quod Est. Here is the address: https://www.facebook.com/Pauli1967 I'm going to link posts there, but I'm not planning to add any "extra" content, at least not right now. Everything there will redirect readers to the blog. It's really just a cross posting exercise. So if you aren't on Facebook, don't rush out and get an account for the sake of reading this wonderful blog.



In fact, I have thought about not linking to absolutely every post we do here to force people to spend time on the blog. For example, this post is not linked on the FB page. I am also considering linking to older EQE posts on Facebook since I feel that a lot of my Facebook friends would enjoy reading some of our observations on the blog.

I encourage people to get Facebook accounts even if they feel like they are "allergic" to social media. I have one friend who refuses to refuses to get one and, sometimes, I feel like I know more about what his kids are up to than he does. (Note: this is probably untrue....) But there are dangers involved with social media, and you can read about them all the time. So I understand the hesitation some have—it's warranted. Like anything powerful, misuse can be disastrous. For instance. But humans have been crippling themselves by livin' out loud for long ages before the arrival of social media.

6 comments:

  1. Facebook expands its artificial intelligence monitoring of you and your friends and family's data and facial recognition patterns to help prevent your or their suicide:

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/facebook-expand-artificial-intelligence-help-prevent-suicide-160303761--finance.html

    So there's that.

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    1. I'd think Facebook would have to monitor a goodly number of people who in fact do commit suicide in order for their AI to be at all accurate. Which is pretty macabre, come to think of it.

      P.S. I had the unfortunate experience a couple of years ago of seeing a suicide scene (after the fact and after police had responded, but before they'd retrieved the body. The reaction I had to that surprised me -- I felt an overwhelming sadness come over me, mostly from wondering how lonely that poor soul was. It reminded me to treat people better; I might be the only smile someone sees all day.

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    2. I think that is the proper reaction. I've had similar reactions when hearing about suicides.

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  2. Pik, the ongoing development of the means (ever more refined data mining techniques) doesn't have to have any connection at all with the publicly declared virtuous ends.

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    1. I think it safe to say that there are more pompous blowhards working at Facebook than, say, in the deli department.

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  3. Yeah, it's kind of like Amazon. I could go to the individual e-commerce sites, but why? E-commerce is dead. Long live Amazon.

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