I am feeling a bit frustrated with Facebook. I am increasingly becoming a person who believes in owning your own content.

Facebook uses our content and our relationships for financial gain. If one person posts something insightful or interesting or controversial then I login to see it and engage with it, who benefits? The middle man, in this example it is Facebook but many others do it. They then take it upon themselves to sell our data and regulate what we see as if they have a right to regulate the public.

They make effort to keep people on their platform with algorithms that decrease visibility of posts that link off of their site.

We give them that right by logging into their platforms and posting our content.

My Own Space

That is changing for me, my content goes on my own site, right here at AdamCollier.com. I am changing the way I use and view facebook. If friends and family really care about what I am sharing they can find it here. I have a good amount of traffic from SEO, I don’t need to share on Facebook.

If friends and family don’t want to come to my site do they really care what I have to say anyhow? And if not that is ok, I can move on to the few who do.

For more on this check out this Lewis Howes interview with Cal Newport.