{"id":255237,"date":"2020-07-22T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=255237"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:33:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:33:04","slug":"we-are-the-new-social-media-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/we-are-the-new-social-media-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are the New Social Media Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/digital-sharecropping\/\">Sharecropping<\/a> was just Slavery 2.0 &#8212; a more sneaky form of slavery that a lot of people got suckered into. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today&#8217;s world, we are currently slaves to social media. If you&#8217;ve ever felt happy, sad, upset or anxious when using FacebookGram, YouTube, Twitter or whatever&#8230; you&#8217;re a slave. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/16\/why-i-deleted-my-instagram\/\">why I deleted my Instagram<\/a>, and now am highly highly suspicious of any of these &#8216;free&#8217; social media services. The more robust path:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Own yourself. <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/why-you-must-create-your-own-platform\/\">Own your own platform<\/a>. Build your own <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/blogging-is-meta-thinking\/\">blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/website\/\">web-site<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can no longer become <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/insta-slaves\/\">slave<\/a>; you must become the master!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharecropping was just Slavery 2.0 &#8212; a more sneaky form of slavery that a lot of people got suckered into. In today&#8217;s world, we are currently slaves to social media. If you&#8217;ve ever felt \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/digital-share-cropping-eric-kim-delano-.jpg?fit=1800%2C1333&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255251,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255237\/revisions\/255251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}