OK.
This is kind of scary.
I uploaded my profile pic to
https://theyseeyourphotos.com/
This is a site, setup by a former Google employee to show you, how Google would interpret a picture of you.
The result is not 100 % accurate (e.g. that I could be targeted with alcohol ads, but I hardly ever drink), but found the exact location and enough to be worried if they analysed a set of, say, a dozen photos.
My results were wildly inaccurate. But, that's also annoying in a way. And it decided for two very different photos I was "lonely" and "religious" which I'm not, in fact I'm the opposite of those things.
It also thinks I'm broke but I just think it's racist basically.
To be fair Facebook is better at serving targeted ads at me. It keeps showing me little gadgets made from titanium and early adopter gadgets of questionable utility. But, that is the kind of junk that I find tempting (last time I was there it was all skin products and makeup) So, somehow they know I like expensive little gadgets. "Better" in the sense that the products are "interesting" Still a waste of time and nothing I need.
And I like to buy gadgets from people I know best.
I think I will leave Facebook after next weekend's #monsterdon give the few people over there one more chance to jump over here and have some fun. The creepy AI images are starting to look normal to me. I don't want to stay immersed in it anymore even though I'll miss some of the people there.
I will just try texting and emailing them instead. Happily I've discovered that the people I know don't post often there. So I'm not missing much.
I recently have rediscovered the joy of handwriting letters.
I even bought a lovely fountain pen for that.
And they arrive at their destination?
If you are located anywhere near your server, then that would almost be a miracle.