Jamie Zawinski got lucky in the dot.com boom and now owns a music venue and pizza restaurant.
Today, he talks about using Facebook and Instagram for marketing:
Instagram: How not to do messaging
Though Facebook is really good at a few things -- being a rage amplifier; providing a clean, well-lit space for fascists; and allowing unmedicated schizophrenics to find each other and thereby elevate their delusions into national movements -- it's important to remember that they are actually stultifyingly incompetent at just about everything that comprises what most people think their business is.
Sadly, my businesses still have a presence on Facebook and Instagram because choosing not to use those services essentially means choosing not to advertise, and that's not really a stand we can afford to take during this pandemic apocalypse.
And since I still have to manage this shitshow, here's me pissing in the wind again about how terrible it is to try and actually use it.
More at the site. HeyJamie - tell us what you really think 😁
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