With Mark Zuckerberg facing accountability in Washington I became overwhelmed with desire to tell my story of why I stonewalled all of my friends and family on Facebook. Today as I watched Mark’s young pink face I felt sorry for him and quickly reminded myself of the pain guys like this has caused me. I then realized my SteemIt blog may be my outlet, as I deleted all my social media accounts.

Let me explain –

I was one of those guys who bought the first 1980s XT PCs, broke it, and learned how to fix it. I still have it to this day. DOS was the operating system and programing by DOS was brand new. Vividly embedded in my memory I can still hear the sound of the dial-up modem and remember the expectation of connecting. I became a fan of the rush and remember the pleasant calm of being connected. Every time a person started up a computer to connect online they went through this same rush of emotion.

Though small it was a rush of emotion it became very pleasuring.

I noticed this in me and others because we were also familiar with not connecting, connection interruptions, and computer restarts when they would often lock up. I have spoken with many old timers to find they too remember this and most just grin and nod in respect.

That experience was America’s first real-time adaptation to the computer and I watched as computers came into homes, bringing value but also harm.

I grew up an analytical person and recently retired from a career as a project implementation specialist for ExxonMobil. They found value in my analytical talents and I want to share with you why I would stonewall all of my social media accounts filled with friend and family.

In my lifetime I was a father at twenty-one, an employee, a youth pastor, a business owner, an author, and had a daily encouragement newsletter which went out around the world. My audience at one point was 50,000 daily. It was Google and BlogSpot which helped me develop an online presence and with the introduction of Facebook I had a way to communicate with my audience.

Once I was helping two churches who lost their pastors in Chingola, Zambia. It was about that time I noticed drastic drop offs in incoming social communications. I’m not saying things changed because of communicating with Zambian Christians, but at this point I feel I was shadow banned by Google for reasonable content. Not directly by Google employees, it was obviously algorithmic. At the time I thought it was time to pay the piper and started taking advertising to drive traffic to my websites and social accounts.

My Facebook account began to grow, follower counts began to soar and yet I saw post engagements did not change. I then began to look at the details and found the majority were from Egypt and the accounts mannequins.
I was swindled out of money and yet it was all good to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. It did not take long for me to realize all of social media has isolated so many people so they see only the content they deem appropriate. Like Zuck said, “They stand to the left in Silicon Valley.”

So 18 years of building an online Christian Ministry I knew it was time to shut it all down for there is no hope in changing their minds or influencing them. They take your money and smile. There is no challenging them.

I really took trying to find a way out of the fog serious and yet having exacerbated every angle on those accounts, I closed them.

Disgusted with the “Corporate overlords” I started looking at the accounts of friends and analyzing their success in communicating their concerns and found most all of what they deem important and post falls to deaf ears of their “friends” and most all feel suppressed and angry so I experimented.

I told all my friends and family I was dropping all my social media accounts and no one took me serious. The worst thing is they knowing my intent just let me go and never check in. I still have a phone and have never moved, yet they have isolated themselves into the false reality that their good times posts lets everyone know they care. At least now I know who my true friends and family are.

I go back to the pleasure of repeatedly hearing that modem connect. Connecting was pleasurable and what started back in the beginning of computers is even more present in the quest for likes and re-posts.

It’s a dopamine rush and it is addictive. # It has the same effect as alcohol on the brain and to prove this you search to find how many people have eaten Tide Pods so they will be accepted and liked.

I no longer use my real name in social accounts. For my online presence no long exists around pleasing friends, clicks, or likes. Personally, I look to be friends with real people. This is why you find this post on here on Steemit. If you would like to be my friend you will reach out.

Currently I make fun movies on Youtube. Yet, I can produce a masterpiece movie and still only be seen by less than 100 people for, like Facebook but bigger, Google shadow bans for life. Even though you may change your name, they know your face and your IP addresses, mac addresses, phone conversations, history, all your important dates, your shopping preferences, and you most personal information. The Corporate Overloads have dominated and monopolized your information. We have no privacy and no voice.

Am I bitter – You bet.

I will not become a heartless, braindead, flesh eating, Zombie. I’m that guy who goes down fighting the suppression of freedom. I agree with Patrick Henry when he said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” I rather be dead than live in a society of heartless, liars.

Under the name Louinator59 I have been looking for real friends. You can find me on Twitter, GAB, Dtube, Youtube and Steemit.