{"id":15285,"date":"2025-01-16T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=15285"},"modified":"2025-01-16T01:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:11:01","slug":"social-media-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/social-media-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No this is not a political post. I am not a political person. In fact I try to avoid politics as much as possible. However I recently heard the following from a local radio station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-d-404 wp-block-embed-d-404\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Uln0g29h4r\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thezone.fm\/2025\/01\/15\/geekout-frickin-meta\/\">Bud&#8217;s Weekly Geek-out! 20250115 &#8211; frickin&#8217; Meta<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Bud&#8217;s Weekly Geek-out! 20250115 &#8211; frickin&#8217; Meta&#8221; &#8212; d404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thezone.fm\/2025\/01\/15\/geekout-frickin-meta\/embed\/#?secret=Uln0g29h4r\" data-secret=\"Uln0g29h4r\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a bit concerned with the way some social media is almost encouraging paranoia and lack of critical thinking. To that end I am going to minimize my posting on Facebook and Instagram. I will try to post more regularly on my website (<a href=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alanklughammer.com<\/a>) and potentially on more open platforms like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>&nbsp;(follow me at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/graphius.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@graphius.bsky.social<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this message doesn&#8217;t age well, and this is a bit of a blip in our history. I hope I am reading way too much into these changes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I appologize if I am scaring anyone or if I am overreacting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS. The image for this post was a bit of fun to give a twist to one of my favourite views in my neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further resources on Meta&#8217;s changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>additional links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/everything-to-know-about-meta-political-content-update\/737123\">https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/everything-to-know-about-meta-political-content-update\/737123<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kateoflahertyuk\/2022\/05\/27\/facebooks-new-privacy-policy-what-you-need-to-know\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kateoflahertyuk\/2022\/05\/27\/facebooks-new-privacy-policy-what-you-need-to-know<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No this is not a political post. I am not a political person. In fact I try to avoid politics as much as possible. However I recently heard the following from a local radio station. I am a bit concerned with the way some social media is almost encouraging paranoia and lack of critical thinking. 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