Interesting.

So I end up doing a lot of click-baity shit. Like I just posted an old photograph I found (during decluttering, thanks, megan!) because it shows the SO sitting on a roundtable discussion panel with the musician I mentioned who's about to get in the GMA hall of fame. It's only tangentially related to the ministry. But it has a total reach of 500 in only two hours. And off-prime hours at that.

And now I am grateful I don't work in a Social Media Marketing. That sounds exhausting.

It really, really does. And it also makes me realize I have no idea what I'm doing with my author page (which I've neglected for a year anyway, but still).

I need to scan some more pictures. I keep missing Throwback Thursday.

So no one else was redirected from Liese's link to somewhere unsavory? Uh oh.

I was directed to a perfectly respectable site with code that did what it said it would.

I am my favorite Facebook person, btw. No surprises there.

Targeted marketing is the main reason I don't answer any questions, including any schools I attended, where I live, what my shopping preferences are. Not that I think any of those things aren't *known*, but it takes another step, which may inconvenience the software enough not to take it routinely, to hook me into more advertising. I have so far resisted linking any of my sites to each other, I never access one *from* another, and have taken steps to *prevent* my account from one site accessing my account on another site. I don't put any info in "the cloud." All the data I store *myself* is on hard drives, auxilliary drives. I am totally aware there is plenty of info on me online, but I have gone to several info-collecting sites and wiped any facts about me that were searchable that I could.

I'm more than willing to give up the marginal "convenience" of having everything available on every device from the cloud, of skipping merrily from Twitter to FB to Instagram to Tumblr. I take the steps, and I clear my history wherever I can, and I vacuum up whatever breadcrumbs I'm aware of, and stay alert for info-seeking sites and software. Tin-hat conspiracist? You damn betcha.

I'm not really bothered by the idea of targeted marketing, nor by the reality. I would be more disturbed at the distorting of of the online community at Facebook if I used it more, but I don't so it's hard to get too worked up about it. It's kind of depressing how much it reminds me of how I perceive the current realities of campaign finance distorting our political landscape. And ties into why I had to stop watching House of Lies.

Unrelatedly (or is it?), do you think I can count raspberry jell-o as my fruit for today?

If you do, -t, I can totally count Reece's peanut butter cups as my protein.

Oh, I do that all the time. Totally protein!