On October 16, an unknown person registered an Internet domain associated with a business I once owned, activated an obsolete email address, and used the credential to destroy my Facebook accounts.
What a shock that was and, as you can imagine, Facebook doesn’t seem to care.
So, I’m off Facebook, perhaps permanently.
Just for fun, imagining a world in which you cared about what I’m up to on a daily basis, where would you like to find a record of that? Instagram? TikTok? YouTube? Elsewhere?
In the meantime, find me on X at @johndyerwrites
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John Dyer Writes 
I discovered you on Retalk (man, do I miss Retalk!), when you published your last book. If you want to hang out on X, I will follow you there. I avoid TikTok on principle because of the keylogger included in the code.
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X looks better than Instagram from where I’m sitting!
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Dear John and ktnorrell,
Good riddance indeed! Welcome to leaving Facebook forever. To resonate with the general spirit and tenet of this post, I am revealing to both of you that I don’t use Facebook and some of the major social media because of the many issues that others and I have pointed out, not least the often rather shallow interactions and superficial moment-to-moment sharing of selfies as well as the ever-present filter bubbles and echo chambers plus a surfeit of misinformation, disinformation, incivility and even anti-intellectualism to the detriment of conducting meaningful discourses on topics of substance.
Moreover, Facebook and some other social media platforms are just not conducive for publishing serious works, technical writings and multimedia posts that are as substantial, creative, multifaceted and sophisticated as those that I have been experimenting and pushing the boundaries on my main blog for enduring satisfaction and posterity.
We live in an economy of inattention and artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms are used to capture our attention and to keep us on social media as long as possible even to the point of addiction and being unable to concentrate on other things. In propelling (the adoption of) social media far and wide, AI has been the real culprit. There are also many other consequences from the encroachment of AI into our lives, which I have painstakingly revealed in one of my posts, which is highly topical and has a very unusual title of “👁️ The Purview of SoundEagle🦅 According to ChatGPT 💬 and the Incredulous 🤔 in the Age of God-like Technology 🚀“. The post examines a large number of issues about AI and ChatGPT, and how they affect us as consumers, thinkers, artists, writers, bloggers, publishers and other roles in society. For your convenience, it is available at
As a concerned citizen, farseeing thinker and writer, I tried my best to discuss and analyse the various issues and offer some solutions, as well as posing ten critical questions about the future of humanity and AI.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle🦅
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X it is, for the time being. Find me at @johndyerwrites
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