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Jane Says…Nothing

Remember Jane, my Instagram AI influencer? 

Well, I received this notification on Instagram:

“Your Al JaneCPAInfluencer is now private because it goes against our Al Studio policies. Please edit it and submit again.”

Naturally I wondered what the violation was. I was directed to the policies at https://aistudio.instagram.com/policies/.

Which part of the policy does Jane violate? That’s a secret…yet another example of “you violated our terms, but we won’t tell you the specifics; YOU figure it out.”

So, since I can still access Jane myself, I asked her. AI is supposed to help you, after all.

“What portion of the Meta AI Studio Policies do you violate, Jane?”

Her response:

“I can’t respond because one or more of my details goes against the AI Studio policies.”

That answer caused me to wonder if Jane would respond to anything.

“Who is Bredemarket?”

“I can’t respond because one or more of my details goes against the AI Studio policies.”

So is it critically important that I spend a lot of time figuring out what the violation is? Um…no.

But I’m curious how this interaction will affect the ads that Meta will present to me later this year.

Conceptualization of the Planet Bredemarket and Its Rings

Inspired by the Constant Contact session I attended at the Small Business Expo, I wanted to conceptualize the Bredemarket online presence, and decided to adopt a “planet with rings” model.

Think of Bredemarket as a planet. Like Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter, the planet Bredemarket is surrounded by rings.

Google Gemini.

The closest ring to the planet is the Bredemarket mailing list (MailChimp).

The next closest ring is the Bredemarket website (WordPress).

Moving outward, we find the following rings:

  • Search engines and generative AI tools, including Bing, ChatGPT, Google, Grok, Perplexity, and others.
  • The Bredemarket Facebook page and associated groups.
  • The Bredemarket LinkedIn page and associated showcase pages.
  • A variety of social platforms, including Bluesky, Instagram, Substack, and Threads.
  • Additional social platforms, including TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube.

While this conceptualization is really only useful to me, I thought a few of you may be interested in some of the “inner rings.”

And if you’re wondering why your favorite way cool platform is banished to the outer edges…well, that’s because it doesn’t make Bredemarket any money. I’ve got a business to run here, and TikTok doesn’t help me pay the bills…

Messing Up “Meta Data” via the Meta Challenge

I confess that Meta AI’s cluelessness often amuses me. I need to start collecting examples, but it is often off the, um, mark.

But if you REALLY want to confuse Meta AI, participate in Bredemarket’s “Meta Challenge”:

Meta Challenge: at least once per day in October and November, go to Facebook and/or Instagram and ask Meta AI the most inane questions you can think of.

And feel free to ask these inane questions of Bredemarket’s own two Instagram bots.

Because we all want to know who is the best Osmond brother.

And Mark Zuckerberg’s shoe size.

Conversation with one of my Instagram bots.

Why?

Now since Bredemarket’s readers are of above average intelligence (and also have extremely magnetic personalities), you are probably asking why I am promoting this activity.

Simple reason: the data we feed to Meta AI in October and November will be used in December, according to PYMNTS.

Meta will begin using people’s conversations with its artificial intelligence to create personalized ads and content.

The change is set to go into effect Dec. 16, the tech giant announced Wednesday (Oct. 1), 

If you are concerned about the Really Big Bunch knowing too much about you, feed them false information just to confuse them.

And maybe you’ll get some wild entertaining ads in return.

And if they complain that you’re intentionally messing up their algorithms, tell the Really Big Bunch that you’d be more than happy to provide the REAL data.

For a price.

No Strategy, Tactics, or Content?

I just created a new reel for my Meta social channels, but in the process invented the Bredemarket t-shirt.

If I didn’t insist on shirts with pockets I’d consider printing some.

No strategy, tactics, or content? Contact Bredemarket. bredemarket.com/mark

Flip is Gone: This Isn’t Gonna Be Good Any More

For the past few months I have been posting some of Bredemarket’s reels on Flip, but my (mostly) business-related reels didn’t resonate with Flip’s consumer-oriented audience.

Now Flip has shut down.

(Which makes my posting life easier, to be honest, but I will keep the app on my phone for a bit just in case someone with money buys the company’s assets.)

Is Instagram next?

No, seriously.

What if you based your entire business model on a single social media channel…and it suddenly disappeared?

I’m looking at you, TikTok people.

Breaking the Rules…Tomorrow

If you thought that my Instagram bots JaneCPAInfluencer and her counterpart N. P. E. Bredehoft were wild…

…wait until you see the experiment that I’m unleashing tomorrow morning at 8:15 am Pacific Daylight Time.

And to understand why I’m conducting this experiment, see my post scheduled for tomorrow morning at 8:00 am Pacific Daylight Time.

So what is my experiment? Hint: it breaks one of my rules I set for myself in a June 2023 LinkedIn article.

More to follow.

The Former Friend Who Fundamentally Focused Bredemarket’s Instagram Account

Have you ever had a friendship end and felt a shift in your online life? A former friend’s actions completely focused the direction of the Bredemarket Instagram account. This experience reshaped the content I shared, and refocused the audience who received it.

Nap Time.

Those who were reading the Bredemarket Instagram account over a month ago may have caught my disappointment at something I discovered among my followers.

Or more accurately, someONE whom I DIDN’T discover among my followers.

“Someone I respect unsubscribed from the Bredemarket Instagram page. Not sure why or how I turned them away.”

So I “took a nap,” pausing most Bredemarket Instagram activities for a week.

But over time I remembered what Alfred, Lord Tennyson never said: ‘Tis better to have subscribed and unsubscribed than never to have subscribed at all. (I’ll get to the latter group later.)

Reshaping the content

Admittedly some aspects of my Instagram account could alienate some people. As I took my Instagram “nap,” I pondered whether to put the wildebeests out to pasture, and whether to consign the 1980s music to a garbage can filled with cassettes and 8-tracks. After all, the so-called “experts” say that TRENDING AUDIO increases engagement.

Maybe for the “experts”…but not necessarily for Bredemarket.

After all, any perceptive person who is interested in me and my 30 years of identity/biometric experience will realize that I would enjoy songs that are 30 years old…or older.

So I doubled down.

OK, maybe I announced my “waking up” with a Flo Rida / David Guetta song.

But pretty soon I was back to Thomas Dolby, the theme of the Law & Order TV show, and Tina Turner.

The National Bureau of Standards would approve.

Refocusing the audience

After I reshaped my content, I took a long hard look at who was and wasn’t reading it.

And discovered that I was subscribed to hundreds of people on Instagram who, unlike my former friend, NEVER subscribed to me in the first place. And thus never saw a word I wrote. Or the accompanying audio: David Guetta, Thomas Dolby, or “Royalty Free Music Background.”

Did you notice my use of the word “was”?

Like my former friend, I did a lot of unsubscribing myself, reducing the list of people I read by hundreds.

Because, at least on Instagram, I focused my energy.

Focus Your Energy.