{"id":27779,"date":"2021-02-26T09:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27779"},"modified":"2021-02-26T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:05:32","slug":"the-whiff-of-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/26\/the-whiff-of-desperation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whiff of Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned and alluded to the fact that I am not on Facebook much these days.  I go some days without checking in, but I do like to go and see what I&#8217;ve posted on this date in the past, and some organizations with whom I deal use it as the primary communications channel.  But I&#8217;m not posting a lot of content over there to fill the data mines.  <\/p>\n<p>And, seemingly, I have muted most everyone, or no one I know is posting much, either.  Because my feed tends to fill with various non-sequiturs and seemingly random advertisements and recommendations.  I think the ratio of random sponsored stuff and actual friends&#8217; posts is closing in on 1:1, and as I mentioned, some of the things don&#8217;t really make much sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say I&#8217;m going to poke fun at the advertisements and recommendations.  I mean, they might be effective to appropriate target audiences, but to me?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/facebookads1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man.  <em>I hate Tears for Fears<\/em>.  Well, <em>hate<\/em>, is a strong word, but I do change radio stations when one of their songs comes on (and they do sometimes yet).  I did not care for the protowoke sensitivity forty years ago.  It has not grown on me since.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/facebookads2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hahahaha.  I just <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/12\/culling-the-herd\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">cancelled my brief re-subscription in November<\/a>.  So, no.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/facebookads3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My food intolerances?  Seriously, what?  I suppose a lot of older athletes are attuned to this sort of thing, but I don&#8217;t have any food intolerances that I know of, and I don&#8217;t think I will get tested to find out.  The only cause and effect that I suffer from related to food is that lunch makes me want to take a nap.  Since I work from home, I can often do that, so perhaps <em>suffer<\/em> is not the word I should use here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/facebookads4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Wait, what?  I am not sure who <em>Lacie Lowry<\/em> is or why I would follow her; or why Facebook thinks I follow high school girls&#8217; basketball.  Maybe because I&#8217;ve posted a picture or two of my children playing basketball?  I do like McDonalds, though, but don&#8217;t eat it that much, and I certainly don&#8217;t talk about it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/facebookads5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The what?  Candles whose scents are inspired by <em>The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, c&#8217;mon, man, isn&#8217;t Facebook&#8217;s big thing that they know what kinds of things you want better than you do?  Or do they want us to think they&#8217;re incompetent at this for some reason?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned and alluded to the fact that I am not on Facebook much these days. I go some days without checking in, but I do like to go and see what I&#8217;ve posted on this date in the past, and some organizations with whom I deal use it as the primary communications channel. 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