Yep, I did it. It was about time. Ever since the birth of the algorithm, even though I had thousands of people on my friends list, I think three of them saw my posts (sarcasm, kind of). True. I had been reading about "shadow banning" on YouTube, Facebook, and a couple other platforms, and I wanted to see if this is what happened to my FB profile, so I logged into my other profile (come on, we all have one), and even though I was on MY OWN FRIENDS LIST, I saw virtually nothing -- no posts -- when I went to view my main profile. I thought, boy this is odd, I'm my own friend, but I see virtually nothing. I'm thinking this must mean that other people on my friends list see virtually nothing as well.
I think I figured out why.
I've been promoting my books on FB for years, literally YEARS, and I got a nice bit of back and forth, responses, comments, and the like, until FB started charging you to "run ads", to pay for "sponsored" ads, and I've seen quite a few of these ads come through my feed from other authors. But, hey, I don't make enough money off of anything to pay for promotion, and I'm not really sure how much I trust their spiel: "If you pay us $50 for an ad, it will be shown to 3000 people". No, I don't believe it.
So, there you go.
I have a private page now, consisting of family, a handful of people I know from The Real World, and a few internet friends I've had for years that I've become very fond of -- and I have a few more of these people that I need to reconnect with. Less than 30 people so far, and it feels much more cozy than 4000 people who were mostly total strangers.
I do want to say that with my private page I have now, I did take the opportunity to create three new public pages at Facebook, and I'm going to give you the links to those pages here.
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They say that once you reach a certain age you become invisible, and to an extent, that's true. However, with age and invisibility comes a certain sense of power.
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