About the Merton Folio (dot com)

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

# What’s the point?

This is our little corner of the interwebs. I (and my family) post thoughts and bits and bobs interesting and important to us. I hope you find them interesting too.

# Who are you?

One Merton, one Golden, and two Golden-Mertons.

# Copyright

The copyrights to any trademarked and proprietary material mentioned on this site are retained by their respective owners. Original material is ©Orren Merton.

# Privacy Policy

I retain absolutely no information about you. My web host probably logs basic information as to your IP and browser. That’s it.

Mertonfolio Begins

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Mertonfolio! Just what the world needed, eh? Another vanity site personal blog for some dude who thinks that what he says is worth reading.

Oh, but this one is different! Why, you ask? Because this isn’t just my blog, it’s potentially the blog for anyone in my family who wants to use it. Don’t worry, our kids are both in preschool, so they’ll not be writing essays any time soon. But you get the idea.

As for the why, you can credit (or blame) Mark Zuckerberg. To be more specific, like most quasi-narcissists, I was content spewing my thoughts on Meta’s various platforms. I was always grumbly about it—those who know me personally know that I’ve been trying to move my friends and family away from Facebook for a decade or more. But I did it, like everyone else of a certain age because most of my family and friends were there, there are groups that appealed to my interests, etc.

However, it’s been getting harder and harder for me to use Meta platforms knowing that my data is helping to enrich a boot-licking, self-absorbed, sociopathic, more-than-quasi-narcissist. So I’m taking my content creation away from Meta platforms. I can use bluesky as my regular, not enshittified social media outlet, but for longer form missives, I’m back to blogging.