I swear, I lay a lot of the blame for the divisiveness of modern culture along with the pervasiveness of fact denialism at the feet of social media ā but on TOP of killing our familial relationships and undermining our democracy, social media has made it really hard for local bands to get word to their local fans. It seems that if you donāt show up in someoneās feed, you donāt exist ā but people donāt seem to understand whatās required to show up in someoneās feed! Unless theyāre interacting with the page already, it requires either coincidence or paid placement to get it in front of their eyes. And a little local band doesnāt have the money to pay to place something in front of your eyes. Weāve got ALL these things in place. IlyAIMY.com and the mailing list have existed for almost 20 years. We have Reverbnation, and Facebook, and Twitter. And really, Iām thinking about getting rid of ALL of it except the basics: ilyAIMY.com and the mailing list. I canāt realistically do that, but with Twitter foundering right now, I do hope it dies a slow, horrible, racist-warring troll-enabling death, and Iād give anything to see Facebook go the way of Myspaceā¦
If Facebook vanished from the face of the earth, Iād just HAVE to find some other way to fill an hour or two of my Life every day, wouldnāt I? Bleah. Yeah ā woke up angry. Thatās not true. Woke up. Got angry in the space of 120 seconds. Because thatās how long it took for that āfanāsā laments of not being able to find meā¦ to find me. If you know the name of the band, you can find out where weāre playing. End of story.
Bah.