Wrong; start again

I know I said I was going to start on protests this week. It seemed like a reasonable plan, but before that I found a different, recently stated plan wasn't working at all.

This particular plan was that in addition to not using AI myself (and writing about it to try and discourage other people from doing it), I would delete uses of AI from my feed.

https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2025/06/rejecting-ai-as-much-as-possible.html 

This went wrong in two ways.

The first is that when you ex out a post on Facebook, it assumes that the issue is the poster, not the content. I was getting options to snooze various people for 30 days, or to report the post. 

There is an option to select preferences, but that is whether you want to see political or sensitive content, and you have a chance to look at your snoozes and designate some people as favorites so they come up.

Also, that doesn't work with ads. If you ex out an ad, it will tell you that you won't see that particular ad again, but you don't get any additional choices.

Therefore, instead of meaning that I got to see the non-AI stuff that my friends posted, it just meant some people were less likely to come up, even without the snooze.  

Even worse, the algorithmic pursuit of engagement started flooding my timeline with movie and television content instead of friends!

I am not quite ready to adopt replying to friends' posts encouraging them to quit sharing AI. Frankly, I don't think a lot of them even realize that's how the images in their shared item were generated. When you think about it a lot, you kind of develop an eye for it and you realize how ubiquitous it is, but a lot of people aren't thinking about it.

So, yeah, that didn't work out; that's life and you try again.

Right now my plan involves having Facebook closed a lot more often, even when I am on the computer. I will still post my songs, articles, blogs, and selfies, and wish people happy birthdays, and do a check then, but I can't keep scrolling through movie and television content and get anything done or stay in touch with people.

There is probably a later segment of that plan where when I tune in I will look up specific people's pages and see how they are doing, perhaps getting a rotation of some kind going. 

My goals are not changing, but my methods must and so they will.