Saturday, October 3, 2026

Digital creator invite on Facebook

For the last several months, Facebook has been offering me the opportunity to become a digital creator. I've rejected it every time.

I think that I keep getting invites because I am aggressively blocking trolls and MAGA content and I post daily on my own profile while still supporting two professional pages. 

I find it fascinating that the algorithm hates me blocking "engaging content." I don't want to engage with evil and it's awful that is what Facebook keeps sending me to watch. 

I will share that my aggressive blocking has made Facebook better overall. But still. They should be smart enough to stop sending garbage my way. Instead, they offer me money for supporting that side of the fence. 

Not gonna do it. 

PS I know someone (or some bot) will read this and wonder why I'm leaving money on the table. Well, first of all, while I have no idea how much money my little posts could make, and a pretend scenario is not going to get me to click into their tools. Secondly, I'm not going to ask my friends to watch ads for me to help Meta destroy the world. Finally, kicking trolls off my page is one of the few joys we have online right now.  

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Ancestry

My mother loved geneaology. Every family vacation involved a bit of research about our family.

After she died, my husband bought me a subscription to Ancestry to digitize her work and share with our kids. Turns out my mother made a few mistakes (which were lovely to find).

Now I'm trying to document exactly how my relations came to the US. I relaunched my Ancestry account and the AI has made it so much harder. SO MUCH HARDER.

How can a tool that grew from SEO be so bad at matching text and keywords?