Interview at Sift Book Reviews

The charming and lovely Sarah of Sift Book Reviews interviewed me today.

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Simon Royle

3 weeks ago

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Life's, goings on. | SIMON ROYLE

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Life’s, goings on. It's been a while... It has been a long while - for someone who makes a living out of marketing, I am incredibly crap at it in the author game. I hope you don't think that's because I don't appreciate you - I sincerely do - each and every one of you.Two thousand seventeen and tw...

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Simon Royle

3 months ago

Editing the first few chapters. I like to do this before starting to write - sort of warming up. Of course, once I've done editing (and written the whole book) then I send it off to my editor. ... See MoreSee Less

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Simon Royle

3 months ago

Back to writing... push it. ... See MoreSee Less

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Simon Royle

6 months ago

Decided not to delete Facebook. Was talked out of it by my son and Mark Williams ... See MoreSee Less

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Simon Royle

6 months ago

Why I will not be using Facebook anymore #DeleteFacebook

I started using FB back in 2007/8, according to the timeline. I used it personally, encouraged others to do the same, and used it for business. In business one of our sites has 30,000 followers and every time we post we get good replies. The majority of that 30,000 has grown organically. I also have an author page and active fans there.

As readers of my website and FB page would know, I called the Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica deal about six months ago – I was surprised it took the FBI, and everyone else, so long to get there. Robert and his daughter Rebecca are evil, the defacto head of white supremacy groups in the USA (and therefore the world). No two ways – pure evil, and Facebook collaborated with them to sell data and make money off it.

The reasoning of MZ, we have to sell your data to pay for the free parts, is ridiculous. Likewise, his, and Sandberg’s response to the exposure – lies, evasion, and arrogance – yes, we are “dumbfucks”.

I will not delete my personal page, because I believe all the data within it has been sold and copied already – I will not be adding to it. And I will keep FB Messenger, especially since…
“One piece of data Facebook said it would stop collecting was the time of phone calls, a response to outrage from users of Facebook’s messenger service who discovered that allowing Facebook to access their phone contact list was giving the company access to their call logs.”
And I use it to talk to family and friends free of charge around the globe (so hopefully I will start costing them money). But, everything else will go.

The effort that we put into the FB pages will go into our own company websites (where we truly NEVER sell ANY data); and other more responsible channels of engagement with the wider world. In each case we will thoroughly study what is done with our and our “users” data before we engage.

We are inflexible on this, but we are not rigid with regards to the future. We hope that our very small symbol of resistance to these flagrant abuses of personal privacy adds to a change in behavior – we will not be holding our breath.

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