It took them almost a year to figure it out...
At first it was an experiment, I was always feeling depressed after spending some time on face book so I asked myself: "how many ads am I watching a day in this shitty platform?", the noise-to-signal ratio was 17 ads to 3 real news from my contacts or liked pages.

85% of advertising at least.

It was long ago since the last time I remembered watching some update on my contacts, my "newsfeed" was a cesspool of shitty situations to make me feel insulted or enrage me. Just to keep me watching more advertising...
So I decided to use face book instead of them using me. I started to use a VPN every time that I interacted, erased all my photos and refrained to react to the "suggested content" ... (that was the hardest part).
Whenever they suggested some news, I manually visited the source page. (Mostly of politicians who are doing their specialty: lie and robbery). I visited their page and dropped a "nice" comment. 🤮🖕💩

But eventually the algorithm found out. There was someone behaving in a strange way, it was dangerous to them: I wasn't consuming any more. They asked me for a video of my face in all angles to map my biometrics data and prove that I'm human for "my own safety". Fuck them I wasn't giving my data for free, they will sell or leak it regardless of their so called permissions and controls, I took the video with the face of some matrix "Neo" toy that was lying around the office.
For the first time in years I interacted with a human being, they found out and banned my account forever.

Now my days seem to last longer, yes I miss the scrolling sometimes but I feel weirdly calmer.

I'm an outcast now , but they gave me one of the most strange gifts of the last years: Time.

Thanks for reading, see you around 1337 Glider .