For your information None of the photos that follow will appear on Facebook.

My Sis took this picture down in Mexico. I call it, Three Serious Cows.

I like Cows. I like them because…well, because they’re not terribly bright yet they have character. They have these big kind eyes. Curious eyes. The world’s a complicated place. These Cows are struggling to figure it out. They weren’t blessed (or cursed) with a huge brain. They’re dim-witted at best. They’ll work at a problem for a while. Then give up. I give them credit for trying…

Man! The world would be a better place if everybody did like the Cows: work at a problem for a while. Then give-up and go back to grazing…

You can depend on Cows. They don’t set out to hurt anybody. They’re not violent unless you piss them off. Only then will they fight your ass. I like lean rangy Cows from Texas and Mexico. The three critters in the photo above have short horns. Maybe their horns will grow. Grow like toenails or fingernails. Grow and grow and grow, until…

They get clipped.

This long-horned dude looks like he just wanted to be petted. He’s wasn’t out to hurt anybody. He was waiting to get petted when a evil human being whacked him out for hamburgers.

This world we occupy is a cruel place…for Steers and other living things.

People keep calling it Facebook

Charles Bukowski, cradling a child, an empty container of his favorite beer on the shelf. I won’t be posting this photo on Facebook, either…Kim sent me this picture. I’ll let her post it on Facebook if she likes.

How come I keep calling it Facebook? It’s not Facebook anymore. It’s now called Meta. Why’d it get changed to Meta? The Owner changed it, that’s why. Why did he change it? I got a flash of curiosity and looked up why he changed it.

Here’s why.

If, say, you don’t feel like reading the linked article above, no big deal. I’ll summarize for you:

The rebrand is part of the company’s efforts to shift gears away from being known as just a social media company and focus on Zuckerberg’s plans for building the metaverse.

Zuckerberg wanted to create virtual reality worlds that everybody can occupy, like the Holodeck Deck on Star Trek, The Next Generation. But that rocket idea didn’t shoot the moon, exactly, and he lost a ton of money. Had to lay off a shitload of employees. So he switched gears and concentrated on efficiency. Which is what Big Shots do when they start losing money. They fire people. People like you and me. That’s what Meta is really all about: making money and hopping aboard the AI bandwagon. They don’t give a shit about you and me, people who just want to socialize. Interact with each other. Make friends. Graze peacefully, like a herd of cows.

Big Shots need to advance civilization.

How Does Meta Make Money?

Facebook (the platform and apps) are free to users. So how does the company make any money at all? As noted above, its primary source of revenue is through digital advertising. Due to the enormous number of users and social media reach, advertisers large and small consider Meta a prime opportunity to present ads to viewers. Meta provides various ways for them to advertise, such as self-serve and targeted ads.

Here’s the key:

Marketers can target specific types of people based on different factors such as age, gender, location, interests, and behaviors. They buy ads that are placed on various Meta social media platforms and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Ads also appear on affiliated third-party applications and websites.

Investopedia

Okay, so your doing your thing on Facebook. Socializing. Making friends. Sharing your life stories. It’s almost as if you’re a cow among a herd of cows, out there in a field, eating grass, digging the scene, kinda. It’s all free! Meanwhile, the sharpies are busy as bees working to sell you shit. Shit you might want. Shit you probably don’t need. But you’ll buy the shit anyway. Why? Because you’ve been targeted.

They know what you want already! So they offer it to you. They offer you shit they think you might buy based on your profile…

This Social Media Business model is like you’ve been probed and swarmed by a pack of sneaky weasels!

I love it!

Why I don’t post photos on Facebook

I got nothing against being targeted by a pack of sneaky weasels. I’m not gonna buy anything. Mainly because I never ever ever buy shit. I’m cheap. I’m the cheapest stingiest Steer you ever met. So let em toss ads at me. I don’t give a shit. I’m not even against what they’re doing. I spent most of my so-called career selling people shit they didn’t need. Some of it truly worthless shit. And I’d laugh my ass off every time I made a sale.

I don’t go on facebook mainly because I can’t figure it out. I get dizzy trying to navigate it. I could maybe figure it out if I spent hundreds of hours on it. If I did that, I bet I’d be a Facebook champ. I’d have a shit load of friends. I guess I would.

I’d be a contented dude. Because everybody on Facebook seems contented.

They seem to be completely and effortlessly contented.

At least it seems that way to me.

What do you call it when you’re Facebooking?

I put a lot of energy into setting up this blog website. Now I’m blogging. I guess this is my way of Facebooking. Is that what you call it?

Facebooking?

I’m not facebooking. I’m Blogging. So far I’m not making a lot of friends. In my case, subscribers. But I’m working on that. I’d like to figure it out. It’s one of my goals, kinda. I might break down and hire a sneaky weasel advertising expert to help me figure it out.

Currently, I’m too cheap to hire a sneaky weasel.

Probably time to lay out some dough.

I’m gonna figure it out. And do it without running ads for shit you don’t need.

Or not. I might just quit blogging. Give up. Be a contented Steer.

Go back to eating grass…