Wednesday – HumpDay, Middle of the week day! Yahoo. Hard to beat those azul cloudless skies, but damn is that wind cold today. And I thought yesterday’s wind storm conditions were cold. Brrr. Nastiness outdoors today. Not going to lie.
So what’s going on with you lot out there in internet land? Come across anything really special lately? Learned any new facts that left you speechless? I’m finding social media becoming almost too clogged with ads to be useable now. YouTube has ads every fourth or fifth video window, plus pre roll, plus mid video ads, and those web banner ad pop ups. Facebook promotes anything and everything it can get paid to shill in my feeds. Instagram seems to be ok still, but it has random ads mixed in too. Just feels like fewer of them, maybe because I don’t spend as much time there. Twitter has gone pretty glitchy. I can atleast block the unwanted ads and advertisers if I wish. I don’t follow that many people so I still see roughly 80% of what I go there for. Comedians, politics and war correspondents mainly. So still within reason there. I stopped using Imgur because the Android App version is dog shit. I haven’t signed on to anything else, so once these wind down that may be it, unless something truly massive and all encompassing comes along.
With work being fairly consistent I’m not able to waste all day scrolling, so perhaps my view of the social media world is skewed. Could be. Wouldn’t be the first time that I have drifted out of a demographic for something that I loved. Think Marvel movies. I get older, they stay the same age, and I grow less interested in what they’ve got going on. Back in my day, we’d hang an onion from our belts, which was the style at the time… indeed.
It will give me more time to write, read, sculpt,build model kits, paint, play music, and do my wood working projects if I give up on social media a bit more each week. Welp. That’s my time. Thanks for coming to my TedX talk. Ciao Bella!
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