{"id":24584,"date":"2019-05-26T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T12:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24584"},"modified":"2019-05-25T06:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:56:42","slug":"the-heart-of-facebook-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/26\/the-heart-of-facebook-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Facebook Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/facebook-has-heart-blackish-green.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ann Althouse<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been seeing prompts by Facebook to join various groups on its site.<\/p>\n<p>Which is weird; I am on a couple for my martial arts school and run one (The Legion of Metal Friends).  So it&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;m unfamiliar with the concept.  However, I&#8217;m not actively looking to increase my engagement with the intrusive behemoth at this time, thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Which is weird, because Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/381498.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently killed a large group<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, Facebook deleted without warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan user group. The group has 1.65 million users who post testimonials and other information regarding the efficacy of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. While the site has subsequently been reinstated (also without warning or explanation), Facebook&#8217;s action should give any serious person reason to pause, especially those of us engaged in activities contrary to prevailing opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve fixed one of their Group come-ons for them:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/facebookgroups.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m just incensed that Facebook reminded me of my recent anniversary <em>a day late<\/em>.  Thanks, Facebook.  I can make that mistake on my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Ann Althouse, I&#8217;ve been seeing prompts by Facebook to join various groups on its site. Which is weird; I am on a couple for my martial arts school and run one (The Legion of Metal Friends). So it&#8217;s not as though I&#8217;m unfamiliar with the concept. However, I&#8217;m not actively looking to increase my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24585,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions\/24585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}