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Jimmy the Squid:
We totally can! Yeah social media has definitely become a Thing. Much like you are now almost required to have a mobile phone to be able to socialise effectively, the same goes for some sort of social media. I mean, it's kind of ridiculous but I have a FB account, a twitter, a G+, a tumblr, I'm on Snapchat and there's some others that I'm not remembering. I feel like I want to get rid of some of those, FB primarily among them but the fact is that if I do get rid of them, I am effectively cutting ties with a number of people I can't conveniently contact by other means (I love my twitter account though, I will never get rid of that).

It also forces musicians to use something which, in my opinion, cheapens your image or "brand" or whatever. I don't really want people to "like" my page or photos or whatever but I really can't deny that it's an incredibly useful networking (though I prefer the term "schmoozing") tool. Most of the recent gigs we've been offered have been done through FB. If we weren't on there we would still be twiddling our thumbs.

pwhodges:
I have a FaceBook account to see what my children are doing; but in spite of having every privacy thing I can find checked, I still get emails every few days saying "you might know..." and suggesting I want to communicate with my ex-wife or someone like that.  It's very irritating, because I simply don't wish to receive these emails ever.

celticgeek:
I have yet to see anything that makes me think that ANY social media website or ANY search engine has ANY respect for your privacy, despite what you tell them about wanting privacy or wanting them not to track you, they just do it anyway. 

For example, I went looking for Ibanyez eight string guitars, found one on zZounds.com, and immediately, when I went back to the comic to compare pictures, there were advertisements for zZounds.com on the comic's page. 

[/paranoia]

Pilchard123:
IIRC there is an opt-out setting for Google's ads, though you may have to have some Google account or other.

Jimmy the Squid:
Basically just posting again in the hopes that someone might see this and give our stuff a listen. We're something like 20 votes out of where we need to be and there's only two weeks left. I'm hoping some of you dig BM enough to help us get a shot at this gig.

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