{"id":4593,"date":"2017-05-23T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:56:03","slug":"dont-engage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=4593","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Engage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/dont-engage-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"4596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dont-engage-1.png 719w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dont-engage-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dont-engage-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dont-engage-1-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind &#8230; your Facebook news feed, isn&#8217;t designed to show you what cool things your family and friends are doing.&nbsp; It is a monetizing device for Facebook to generate more engagement.&nbsp; They want you to spend MORE TIME looking at posts, responding to rants and otherwise glancing over at their sidebar of advertisers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So that post from the troll who is on your friend&#8217;s list will slip into your feed, not because its newsworthy but because Facebook notices that you spend a lot of time engaging when that person writes something.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid the bait. Don&#8217;t engage the rage, regardless of Facebook dangling the moron carrot in your news feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep in mind &#8230; your Facebook news feed, isn&#8217;t designed to show you what cool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma","category-tech-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}