Personal agency and physical proximity (personal agency in action) manifest an organic algorithmic curation process that determines who and what enters and exists in our lives (our form).

Facebook represents a commercial algorithmic curation process that filters who and what we perceive, optimized not for truth, but for engagement and the economic interests of its shareholders.

In this sense, Facebook does not reflect Truth or a healthy perception of the shared reality, but rather presents a perception of it through a dopamine-seducing metaverse shaped not around truth but by a desire for profit through an illusion of connection that seeks interpersonal social and political behavioral control.

The Form of the Negative Feedback Loop

The paradox that Facebook manifests: we possibly produce our own isolation while pursuing dopamine within a manufactured illusion. At the same time, we ignore or neglect the person sitting across from us or the one holding our hand.

The dilemma that currently faces society is that we have delegated the mortar of human interaction to a capitalist illusion. A mirage provided to the wounded parts of humanity seeking to be seen that profits from the manipulation and exploitation of our interpersonal relationships and memories. At the same time, this illusion that evaporates in desert sand possibly aggregates people, places, and things (unwanted memories) that our own decisions and physical proximity have organically removed and curated from our lives. The pragmatic paradox: choosing not to participate in Facebook’s metaverse risks social isolation and exclusion from a widely adopted communication platform functionally similar to discarding the White Pages in 1985.

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#Disconnection

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