{"id":1879,"date":"2024-09-28T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2024-09-28T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T15:06:30","slug":"how-to-make-facebook-usable-again-and-how-to-stop-ai-stealing-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/how-to-make-facebook-usable-again-and-how-to-stop-ai-stealing-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Facebook usable again and how to stop AI stealing your time and attention."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First question, do you really still need Facebook? Probably you don&#8217;t, but it is a decent way to stay in touch with people you have met.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everybody you meet leaves a mark on you.<br \/>\n(Quote from a random acquaintance that I met in Luxembourg. He showed me around for one night.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ugo Bardi thinks Facebook is <a href=\"https:\/\/senecaeffect.substack.com\/p\/facebook-a-seneca-collapse-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapsing<\/a>. Let&#8217;s be honest, Facebook has become a drain, it sucks out your attention by learning how to clickbait you.<\/p>\n<p>If you still need it, install this plug-in: <a href=\"https:\/\/socialfixer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Social Fixer<\/a> for Chrome Browser.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;Hide Post&#8221; option, put the following words:<\/p>\n<p>Reels and short videos<br \/>\nJoin<br \/>\nFollow<br \/>\nSponsored<\/p>\n<p>All the AI blobs that stole your attention will be gone. Read a book instead. As mentioned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/one-of-the-most-important-skills-for-the-future\/\">previous<\/a> post, skills that only a few people have will become very valuable in the future! One of these skills is to be able to focus on something, to have an attention span longer than 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI&#8217;m very skeptical of books. I don&#8217;t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that&#8230; I think, if you wrote a book, you f\u2014ed up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.\u201d \u2014 Sam Bankman-Fried (skeptical of books).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scammer Bankman seemed to have a very short attention span. Most people are not able anymore to read a book. But I agree that I have read books that indeed should have been a blog post, e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/World-Flat-History-Twenty-first-Century\/dp\/0374292884\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>There are hardly any people left who are able to focus on something.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Skills that only a few people have will become very valuable in the future!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted\/dp\/1455586692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1882\" src=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/deep_work-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/deep_work-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/deep_work-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/deep_work-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/deep_work.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First question, do you really still need Facebook? Probably you don&#8217;t, but it is a decent way to stay in touch with people you have met. Everybody you meet leaves a mark on you. (Quote from a random acquaintance that I met in Luxembourg. He showed me around for one night.) Ugo Bardi thinks Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-and-privacy-opsec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}