FaceBook Wants Pay to Play

 I play with my blog and my site just for shits and giggles. I have no dreams of grandeur with this, hell even if I could wish for it I would not. I would lose followers due to my crappy writing and my in ability to be consistent. I do not care if anyone reads my page, I am here for me and me alone. It would be cool to interact with others who share this flair of blogging but in the end this is for my entertainment.

Now, Facebook (FB) has this thing where it likes to harass people into paying for views. Normally I do not send anything to my JournaledTimes FB page unless it is about a direct post from here. Last week I did a little spicy food challenge ( I will make a full post about that later) and I posted it to my Instagram (IG) account. But for some reason IG changed my posting settings to post to my JournaledTimes page. Not sure to why or how, so I was looking for my post but I could not find it because it was on my JournaledTimes page.

No big deal really, I just left it and moved on. Then I started getting harassed by FB to boost my post…..but I had to pay for it! Now I am not looking to put anymore money into this hobby than I already do, I pay a yearly fee to WordPress to keep my hobby on a legit page .

At first it was just a simple post that popped up and I left it alone. But then it kept coming up over and over again. So I went to see what this was about, all these post about boosting!

Well, as it turns out I have to pay if I want to get more views from FB. And honestly that seems a bit fucked up, I will only get more views if I pay them money…..as I am not going to do that but I am curious as to how that works?

What are they going to do to boost my post that was not happening already? I pay them money and they do what with it? How are other people that are not currently in my circle of friends going to see a video I posted on my page? I am interested in what they mean by boosting…..but not enough to pay money.

FB, a multi billion dollar company, wants my pennies to boost my shitty little video….yeah no thanks. I am not hard up to artificially add views to my site. Reminds me of those fucktart influencers on IG that pay for their followers. You like my shit or you don't, makes no difference to me.

Come and follow or fuck off, I am not about to pump my money into a system that has no real proof it even works. I mean when was the last time you heard anyone thanking FB for their fame through boosting?