October 25th, 2016.

Ah, apple cider donuts! The breakfast of champions!!!

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 donā€™t show up in someoneā€™s feed, you donā€™t exist ā€“ but people donā€™t seem to understand whatā€™s required to show up in someoneā€™s feed! Unless theyā€™re 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 doesnā€™t have the money to pay to place something in front of your eyes. Weā€™ve 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, Iā€™m thinking about getting rid of ALL of it except the basics: ilyAIMY.com and the mailing list. I canā€™t realistically do that, but with Twitter foundering right now, I do hope it dies a slow, horrible, racist-warring troll-enabling death, and Iā€™d give anything to see Facebook go the way of Myspaceā€¦

If Facebook vanished from the face of the earth, Iā€™d just HAVE to find some other way to fill an hour or two of my Life every day, wouldnā€™t I? Bleah. Yeah ā€“ woke up angry. Thatā€™s not true. Woke up. Got angry in the space of 120 seconds. Because thatā€™s how long it took for that ā€œfanā€™sā€ laments of not being able to find meā€¦ to find me. If you know the name of the band, you can find out where weā€™re playing. End of story.

Bah.

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