You’re free to log-in to Facebook—but you’re not free from its algorithmic feed.
You might log-in with the intention of checking in on friends, but what results is a firehose of content that each carefully analyzes your every touch of your finger—down to the pixel—so as to craftfully, cunningly, with an incomprehensible amount of precision… guide you into a rabbit hole… featuring content that keeps you logged in, swiping and scrolling, vegetating and droning for as long as it can manage.
See what we need to realize is that in so many cases in life, we’re free to make whatever choice(s) we want, but we’re not free from the consequences of those choices.
Logging into social media apps is a free choice, but what we get shown is no longer completely up to us.
Hanging out with certain people is a free choice, but what gets done, discussed, and experienced is no longer completely up to us.
Choosing where we spend our time is a free choice, but who we run into, the vibes of the environments, the types of experiences we’re prone to having are no longer completely up to us.
Which is why it’s more important than ever to take control of our free choices and choose to act in ways that minimize the potential downside and maximize the upside.
Rather than log-in to social media apps, maybe we choose to log-in to reading apps instead.
Rather than hang out with toxic types, we make more space for and hang out with healthy types.
Rather than choose to spend our time at bars/clubs, maybe we spend more time at gyms/cafes.
Freedom has consequences… choose wisely.