Facebook and the UFO community

Copyright 2019, InterAmerica, Inc.

Yes, I use Facebook and have for some time, and I invested in the company when it IPOed.

But things have changed, Facebook a pariah as cognoscenti see it.

The current New Yorker [12/2/19] has a piece about one of Facebook’s early supporters (Roger McNamee) who provided equity for the start-up but has come to loath Zuckerberg and the social media giant.

(McNamee has a book out – Zucked, which is a must-read for anyone using the service.)

Many ufologists or UFO enthusiasts love Facebook.

Me? I’m "shadow banned" by Facebook – meaning anything I put online there is not shown to my 1142 “friends’ or anyone else.

Why? Because I belong to a vocal group that is calling for the ouster of Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg and the breakup of Facebook.

I’ve put my thoughts and position online at Facebook where I’m a critic for local news media in town.

I have been public about the disaster that Facebook is. But my UFO friends won’t say a thing. They love the sappy “Likes” and the sycophantic attention they get there.

Their position is somewhat [sic] like the Germans who ignored the anti-Semitic attacks on the Jews, keeping their mouths shut in order to reap any benefits they thought the Nazis might bring them.

It’s shameful that no one I know, in the Facebook UFO community – or even newsies that I deal with mostly – have the guts to chide the company for its nefarious and outrageous exploitation of Facebook users.

UFOers there are not only sappy but stupid with how they plunder their morals and ethics in order to solicit some attention that they, otherwise, are not getting.

It’s not only sad and pathetic but also shameful and despicable.

N.B. The graphic atop is from slate.com

RR