On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:26:25 -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I hope this isn't too off topic for this list but smart people lurk > about these parts.
It is a bit off-topic, indeed :-) > In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family > oriented neighborhood. We're serving coffee, espresso and baking fresh > bread and pastry on premises. The shop will be located at the northern > tip of Manhattan in the vicinity of Inwood Hill Park (last remaining > undeveloped, old growth forest in Manhattan), Isham Park and Fort Tryon > Park. (...) > Everyone has been telling us that we *absolutely* have to be on facebook > and twitter, if not more, for our coffee house. They argue that it's > free marketing and advertising. That we need facebook to advertise > events and specials. That most people today check their facebook before > their email. That is, if they check their email at all. > > This does not sit well with me. I've read the tech news concerning > facebook's privacy and "intellectual property" policies. I've recently > read about twitter's country based censorship controversy. > > Being a neighborhood shop, I was hoping to avoid social media. I want to > interact with people in person. But I agree that I need a way to let > people know about events of specials. Can I do that with GNU software > without selling my soul to Zuckerberg? Do I even need software or could > I be smarter about this? (...) Extremes are always bad. I would open a Facebook and Twitter (Google+, MySpace...) accounts for people who uses these means but also think about another users that care about their privacy so I'd open accounts in Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the open counterparts for Internet socializing. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jglol1$g99$4...@dough.gmane.org
