From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > D   wrote:   
   >>  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,   
   >>> It's got pretty hard to avoid some of these businesses. Google, Facebook,   
   >>> Microsoft are examples of companies that are very hard to avoid.   
   >>   
   >> ? Facebook is super easy to avoid. Just don't use it. They make nothing of   
   >> value.   
   >   
   > It doesn't work that way.  First of all, even if you don't use it, people   
   > are putting your personal information up on it when they are talking to   
   > their friends about you.   
      
   This I addressed in another post.   
      
   > Secondly, if you are running a business, you may need to have a facebook   
   > presence for advertising just because that is the first place that many   
   > people look for some services.  You can avoid using it but not without   
   > losing a lot of customers.   
      
   Or not. I've asked marketing to prove their claims for decades in the   
   global IT corporation space, and zero times have they been able to do it.   
   A lot of "I have to be on X" (pun intended!) is just FOMO.   
      
   If you're a small local shop, and do a good job, your customers will do   
   your marketing job for you. Actually not having a FB page, could be more   
   powerful than having one, since it adds a bit of mystique, artisanship and   
   secrecy.   
      
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