{"id":5562,"date":"2014-04-11T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:24:21","slug":"facebook-on-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/facebook-on-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Face(book) On, Face(book) Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Facebook-likeI don\u2019t like Facebook. I never did. I wouldn\u2019t even get on it to talk to my relatives. There was always something faintly nefarious about Facebook I didn\u2019t feel with Twitter (which may simply be better at hiding it). I also didn\u2019t like and didn\u2019t understand either the interface or its functionality.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m an author and as authors will do (or try), we must market. And marketing was happening on Facebook. And, not coincidentally, that\u2019s where my fans were, too. I made a page<\/a>. I have a personal account<\/a>, too, that\u2019s really not so personal. So I went there and I posted there. Then Facebook changed the way it displayed what I posted<\/a>, which was to say, there was a precipitous drop in how many people were shown my posts from one day to the next. Facebook is doing Things, and those Things are cutting out the end user from stuff they want to see. Therefore, why should the content creators continue to supply content?<\/p>\n

I will be ramping up my blogging again because there is no reason for me to be on a platform I hate if my readers won\u2019t be shown what they have asked to see.<\/p>\n

I will also be starting a newsletter for those who don\u2019t care for blogs.<\/p>\n

Because you know what? I have two (yes, two) books coming out on May 1, 2014, and I\u2019d sure like people to know about them. Facebook\u2019s not going to help you find out about them anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t like Facebook. I never did. I wouldn\u2019t even get on it to talk to my relatives. There was always something faintly nefarious about Facebook I didn\u2019t feel with Twitter (which may simply be better at hiding it). I also didn\u2019t like and didn\u2019t understand either the interface or its functionality. But I\u2019m an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[561,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18501,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/18501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}