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@Mel Hopkins your statement was: My deleting Instagram will certainly solve the problem of their attempting to influence my behavior. Mel I'm a healthy, heterosexual Black man; it would not be too much of a leap to assume I might be titillated by that photo. I can tell you that is a hot photo. Mel you keep comparing your feed to mine to justify differences in why I see big booty girls and you don't that is flawed reasoning. Now you and Del wanna joke around and make me out to be some big time consumer of porn. Have fun. I don't have a problem with porn, but I don't want it pushed to me. One of many reasons I don't use these social media properties. I want to exercise more control over what I consume online. Now you can try to justify the reasoning for what they put I'm our feeds, and why it works for you, but I have contempt for their business practices. Unfortunately I can't put my head in the sand and make believe they don't exist or have influence any more than i can ignore Amazon's.

Promoting racial superiority, embracing homophobia, and spewing anti-semitism are, indeed, tenets of right wing politics, and your hero is nothing more than a black nazi full of hate for the "other". Farrakhan is exactly where he belongs, in a category with the 2 white conspiracy bigots who FaceBook also gave the boot to. (And it's not "lable", it's "label." )

@Troy No software program; pimp; drug dealer or advertising can influence behavior that doesn't exist. You seem to want to blame everything on outside factors. Before it was the billboards in the 'hood that influenced black folks to drink beer and smoke cigarettes ... Now you go on Instagram set up an account and it's their business practices that promoted a woman's big booty in your feed - a WOMAN that you decided to follow. It's amazing how it's never your decisions that cause you to be at odds with something ... Instead it's the system. A system that only seems to affect you. But then you think the rest of us are clueless because we recognize cause and effect LOL ... OH wait that's right! You don't believe in free will nor cause and effect either. MKay. 🙄

I had an Instagram account briefly and no porn. Also you probably didn't close the image right away. I had an Instagram account briefly and no porn. Also you probably didn't close the image right away.

Again... porn has NEVER turned up in my feed on Twitter either... Wow @Delano ! I think you may be on to something 😮

In other words lay off the porn.

@Troy You know I don't know you as well as the "internets" does. It is an example I used to illustrate the definition of the algorithm. It wouldn't have been as effective if I used the name "tom" ... 😁 But you make me laugh. You sound like my mother who believes if she doesn't do online banking or check her medical records - the information isn't available about her. So yes, delete the app, but that's like removing the mirrors from your home because you don't want anyone to see how you look. How you appear to the advertisers isn't going anywhere. The only way you can get away from these privacy bandits is to go off the grid period. Remove yourself from the system. No credit cards, no television, no voting, no banking, no cell phones, nothing electronic that is collecting data...And then only you'll know about how you feel about big booty women.

@Pioneer1 a mother responsible for the financial well-being of her children is not a matriarchy. Nor does that qualify as a social/political/financial system. It's simply called survival. For matriarchy to exist it would have to be a social system. At present one does not; nor has ever existed. Even in the UK with Queen Elizabeth currently reigning, it's still a monarchy not matriarchy. But back to my original point' since the Tuareg Tribe still maintain a lot of their socio- cultural system - it is easy to trace their activities to some Africans who live in America. If I didn't make myself clear - I was specifically referring to some African American women and how they CHOOSE to live that mirrors the Tuareg Women. As for the Tuareg tribes, their history reveals they are indigenous to Africa - but this brings us back to appropriation . I'm hoping this thread will shed light on what is unique to Africa and what we brought with us - not some european historian saying the Berbers were "white"...Sure we've always married other ethnic groups - but that doesn't change who is indigenous to the land. Tuareg tribes exist in egalitarianism-matrilineal model of culture. NOT patriarchal which is a social political system that's been in place for about 15,000 years; a lot of it due to colonialism. As for Alpha "men" I don't even know what that means. If you're making a comparison to wolves ...that report has since been discredited because the "researcher" only observed wolves in captivity but not the wolves who are free. It appears when wolves are enslaved they become aggressive - and go crazy. They attempt to dominate something or someone since something or someone is dominating them.

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 and thus was known for who invented the record player. So while I was there for the birth of hip hop. I did a little mixing, scratching and rapping in the basement. Also saw some of the founding fathers and mothers of Hiphop. The record player pre-dates me by about a century. Do you believe the turntable was created in the 1970's instead of the 1870's.

Actually that is how is how works Mel social media decides what appears in you feed (even it is just amongst your friends). According to your research I'm following 1,200 people and judging from that snapshot I actually know a small percentage of those people. Kia Storm is author, as you pointed out; that may explain why we are following each other. Again I had no idea how many people was following or how many were following me until just now. I never set up the abilty to shop on my instagran feed (got side tracked). At any rate, of the 1,200 people I'm following the Instagram algorithm determined which post was most likely to keep me engaged. Again, judging by the photo they put in my feed they did a damn good job -- I forgot all about selling books 😉

That is so interesting in that the barber that was applying the wig was bald, but still, it doesn't matter. If people feel good for adding hair enhancements, then it is okay. I've done some deeper research on 'balding' and feel that today, society does not view this blessing in the proper way, and therefore, some men develop some kind of insecurity.

@Delano, yes, I knew that about consider! But disaster too? Interesting!