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Why I Block Most Of My Family On Facebook

Posted: 19 May 2016 07:00 AM PDT

This is a touchy post…  and if think I am talking about you – well, I probably am.

When I say block I mean block.  While my profile, posts, photos, and other stuff is wide open to the public – when blocked people are logged in they can’t see anything.   Of course they could log out of Facebook and look but logged in they can’t.

So why would I?

Well the honest truth is they don’t know me.   They don’t know I have written a biography that has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and also I give the digital version away for free which according to my S3 stats has been downloaded over a million times.

Now if you’re reading this,  and have been following this site for years, then you know me pretty well.  Much better than my family.  You know me as completely unfiltered.  Very politically incorrect,  egotistical at times, and.. um.. the opposite of humble.. like recently when I got 100k in cash as a signing bonus on a sizable consulting deal:

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My family, at least most of them, I see MAYBE 3 times a year at holidays.  Some I haven’t seen for decades.  Most don’t even know that I’m rich.

Ok thats a lot of preamble to why I block family and local people on Facebook.

Facebook has somewhat replaced my blog for opinions or very inappropriate short content.  Lots of times people will comment with what they know about me… a lot of inside jokes with references to posts I have made or things from my book.

This was never a problem up until about 3 years ago when EVERYONE got on Facebook.

They would see my posts and then contact my mom or my wife and comment about them…  Or they would see one of my followers making a joke in reference to something I said before which they take offensively because it sounds like they are talking bad about me.

Anyway it just messes things up.

Why should I post like I act at Thanksgiving or Christmas or the other maybe 2 times a year I see these people related to me.  I mean its like a couple hours at most?  And most of the times its when grandma or aunt so and so is around.

Its not like I can drop F’bombs,  make references to “Hookers and Blow”,  show the scantly clad women in ShoeMoney shirts, or pictures of me at strip clubs,  or even humbly flash a check or a picture of me with 100k in cash.

I have been told many times to untag friends/family because of their friends or their work from certain photos.

One of my best friends,  I had a local adult actress snap a webcam photo for when he turned 40,  but unfortunately I can’t share it on his Facebook wall because he has a corporate job:

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I dunno…  I guess in the end this is MY work.  Yes being myself is my work.  I make money from being myself.

I don’t want the topic at my kids first communion to be about the video of our new nanny in my new car testing my new Go Pro dash cam and how inappropriate that is (which just happened) :

The person I do not block is my wife.  She is awesome and she knows me pretty well =).

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