[Frameworks] THE END OF FACEBOOK AS SOCIAL NETWORK

[Jana Debus]

creating Email Newsletters with MailChimp is a good alternative option. It lets people subscribe and unsubscribe and lots of design features. 

http://mailchimp.com


Jana


 
sent on the go, please excuse typos


> On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:33 AM, "drawclose.com" <snowbloods.parasol at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The Facebook workaround : message five to ten friends a day and ask them to invite people to that event. Have all other participants do the same. You have to nag, the kids these days think putting up a Facebook event is work*.
> 
> The long term workaround: build your email list. 
> 
> Unpopular truth: if the service is free than you are the product being sold. 
> 
> It's a struggle, FB keeps the illusion of convenience, since "everybody's on it all the time". But when someone offers to do the work for you, there's usually a cost . . . 
> 
> Jessica
> 
> *my response to this was: really? You ever hung 100+ fliers with staple guns only to watch them disappear in a week? 
> 
> *****
> http://www.drawclose.com
> 
>> On Mar 11, 2016, at 11:32 PM, Gashouse Films <gashousefilms at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, same exact thing is happening to me. After 5 years, my first feature is premiering and I was only able to invite half of the followers of the film page on FB. Hoping somehow they will catch a post to know about the screening. 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Personally  believe that Facebook and Apple are the two biggest terrorist organizations in the world!
>>> 
>>> Dominic
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Klaus W. Eisenlohr <klaus at richfilm.de> wrote:
>>>> THE END OF FACEBOOK AS SOCIAL NETWORK
>>>> Well, I think, that's it! I was just creating an event for our screening next Thursday at Z-Bar. For Directors Lounge
>>>> BUT I COULD ONLY INVITE 50 PEOPLE!
>>>> 
>>>> We have like 820 group members of Directors Lounge in Facebook and I can only reach 50 of the to invite them?
>>>> I guess we need to create new networks, let's see, but this is just not working any more.
>>>> 
>>>> Oddly and stupidly, Facebook used to be the place where all the filmmakers come and connect, or used to do so. That was the reason I was started to be engaged here.
>>>> If you are having any suggestions, for a better less obscure project to connect with people, I would be happy to hear from you.
>>>> Now I just hope we will somehow reach the people interested for the next show.
>>>> See you there, maybe!
>>>> 
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Klaus W. Eisenlohr
>>>> 
>>>> Team Directors Lounge
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>>>> 
>>>> Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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