Okay, so the way i see it you done business with facebook and they were ok with it, until their business model changed and they no longer wanted your money, and you feel screwed by the way they done it.
You say you're grateful for the opportunity to not pay Facebook any more money; well, i weren't you grateful before this? That would have been a smart decision as well. And yes fb's collecting people's data and then sell it to third parties etc; but that's going on for years already. How come you only start talking about them doing the bad things only now after you feel screwed? If you had good principles, you'd've ceased paying them and exposing the monster they are ages ago, and not now as a revenge. Which means you're only like them, going for the greed. In this case why blame them - as you have the same business pattern .
''I am grateful for the chance to not spend any more money with Facebook. I will not create a new ad account. I will not try to work around this. I will simply direct as many people off of Facebook as possible to other places'' --- well, better later than never as how they say. But doing that for the wrong reasoning is that being somehow hypocritical in regards to the Steemit community, as you're not doing that for them, but for yourself, to somehow feel that you stroke back into Fb. You want to do something right? Close your Fb, Youtube and and all other social media accounts and focus only and solely on Steemit blockchain; and also quit the bot crap - asking money for upvotes. As with your bot, you're voting anyone that pays - and thus voting a lot of rubbish to get into the trending page while you're acumulating SP. That's not adding value to the blochain, nor to @steemit; and saying that this helps #minnows rising is bullshit again, because more balue can be added by eachother upvoting and engaging with eachother, instead of paying for votes and reaching the trending page, where anyway not many read the article in the first place and just upvote it only for the possible rewards.
''I am grateful for the chance to not spend any more money with Facebook. I will not create a new ad account. I will not try to work around this. I will simply direct as many people off of Facebook as possible to other places.'' --- LOL . We, who earn a bit, does not include you @jerrybanfield , you earn a lot (especially with that voting bot) that you can afford to spend $100 000 on advertising. You, it's not us the majority of the community, and what you say in this little paragraph is rather politician speeching. Let us not confuse things here; yes indeed you were like us once, but then with greed and perseverance, you became different. I'd love if we could have you back, yes. But that would mean to do some things that you're probably not willing to do, as they cut on your revenue.
Yes Fb, Youtube, Govts etc. are afraid of the technology of blockchain for the various reasons. But that's no news .
''When billions of us start to see, "You know what, why are we giving away everything we do for free and then allowing a company to get rich off of it'' -- Well, you're asking as to vote you as witness (for FREE), but then you charge us for the upvote (idk how much your bot minimum request is, but yeah is not free) . So why not we charge you as well for our vote to be a witness ey?
Anyway, It's a bit pathetic, reaching half of your post and all i see is games, demeaning, smoke and mirrors and no verticality whatsoever. And with all that, there is little value in your post, like many others, and yet it's trending. That;s what you and your alike made out of steemit. Don't complain anymore bout Fb, you're just the same. Want a change? Be the change (and be for the right reasons ) .
I know this comment will obviously go ignored by many. But who took the time to finish reading it, consider upvoting it so that it goes higher on the list so that others have their mind enlighted about what is actually going on, and what this post is playing to be.