{"id":2917,"date":"2023-10-31T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:32:08","slug":"knee-jerk-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/knee-jerk-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee jerk reaction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not really &#8211; but since the &lsquo;<strong>Meta<\/strong>-verse&rsquo; has decided it&rsquo;s going to bring in subscriptions for people who don&rsquo;t want to see publicity on their social network platforms, I (and millions of others it seems) are questioning if it&rsquo;s really worth staying&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIP.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIP.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2919\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0394736842105263;width:131px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIP.jpeg 474w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/OIP-300x289.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ig-logo-email-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ig-logo-email-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2921\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:126px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2920\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:126px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-1536x1536.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R-100x100.png 100w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/R.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I left <strong>Facebook<\/strong> some years ago &#8211; they didn&rsquo;t notice, much less I, so I&rsquo;m pretty sure I won&rsquo;t suffer too much&#8230; there are people who pretend they have no interest, then go bonkers when someone likes their bike videos&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s going to cost nearly 13\u20ac for the &lsquo;right&rsquo; to use <strong>Instagram<\/strong> on a telephone, less if it&rsquo;s on a PC. I frankly can&rsquo;t see the point &#8211; I have a few followers there (435 it seems) but there are probably only 5 or 6 who look at my posts on a regular basis, and 4 of those are family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably time to call it a day &#8211; which will give me more time to do other things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really &#8211; but since the &lsquo;Meta-verse&rsquo; has decided it&rsquo;s going to bring in subscriptions for people who don&rsquo;t want to see publicity on their social network platforms, I (and millions of others it seems) are questioning if it&rsquo;s really worth staying&#8230; I left Facebook some years ago &#8211; they didn&rsquo;t notice, much less I, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/knee-jerk-reaction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Knee jerk reaction?&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}