G+ spoiled me. I started as a blogger on an indispensable throw away issue, the Psychic's consultants ethics. What if they aren't always insane, corrupt or ignorant. The obvious correlations with religion and politics have been a hard sell.
Starting to write my book "ZENOPHILE," on Blogger meant only the blog & media giants cared about my unique and provocative content. When I started on G+ I linked to Google Analytics and YouTube with my Math Movie Graphics. This opened up a floodgate of engagement that only my multi-tiered outreach could have achieved. I tried writing about my rarefied interests in for instance, Google image decompression algorithms testing out their image recognition software on my math art.
Not to mention the Russian Porn Mafia whose original interests were prompted by my admitted use of their applied Games Theory approach to intimacy and dating compatibility. I use a very elaborate system of checklists identifying distinguishing markings and variations of distinctions.
Long and short of it is, just like G+, mine too was an experiment that went horribly, horribly right. And no one will likely ever got to see it. I'm not that disappointed. My whole life has been thus both extremely successful and outwardly pointless. The G+ experiment made it possible for me to limit the noise of engagement, which I deliberately avoid. I devised a strategy of Creative Personalization where I let advertising tell me what GOOGLE can see of my extremely limited inroads into the internet. Less data about me is qualifiedly more. No email. No commerce. No google searches ever. No YouTube except for music. The amount of the revealing info into the Google personalization profiling algorithms, is used to target potential markets. This foe me was an endless gold mine for reverse surveillance, profiling the profilers.
But the end came much too early, with the rollout of G+beta. No more tasty unique advertising prompting from my interests. One last sudden upswing in engagement was coming through the Porn Mafia until the election. Now my ads on YOUTUBE are predictably pedestrian, as they should have always been. But even back then I was still getting people coming through the porn dating sites from Czech armaments dealers, Russian book clubs, Turkish Hacking conglomerates, Ukrainian hunting clubs, Japanese code designers, etc, etc. I couldn't have made this stuff up.
I do like being able to find things that most people will never get to see, much less want to know about. Having had so many careers where I simply have too much self respect to want to pander or proselytize, I appreciate the need to just let go and move on to something else often unrelated. With the closing of G+beta, I'll miss the few people I've actually been able to learn from and their informative posts on my G+ Home Page.
This is the unsigned Painting. It not what you get, but it's what you give yourself. Dearest Dr. Ed. You once said to me that, "It's very hard to connect with people over the web. Full stop. The new beginning is here. When I have been advised to create my own new online "Community" to identify and address this apparent gap in perceived social connectivity, I confess I prefer to accept the successes and failings of my social experiments as part of a much larger learning curve. To where and when, I don't know. (I can't say, "We'll see." That's the Don Bot's elastic slogan.)
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