Why Are Shelters and Rescues So Obsessed with Facebook???
I don’t have a Facebook account. I haven’t for years. I used to work for meta long ago and I believe it’s a scourge on society, not to mention a nightmare for your personal privacy and data security; I’m not going to have an account ever again, period. I don’t think anyone should but I get that people make their own choices. Ok.
Tell me why this has disqualified me from working with FIVE different local rescues as a foster home?? I finally found one that told me it didn’t matter and of course it wasn’t required…only to constantly be met by shelter staff who rarely read my emails, can’t seem to answer the phone, and answer every question I have about anything to do with promoting my foster, upcoming events, getting a new pup, getting necessary supplies or finding respite care by saying “oh, just post in the Facebook group”. “Didnt you see the Facebook post?” “Oh we put the event info on Facebook”. My favorite, “no I didn’t ignore your email, I messaged you on Facebook”. How?? To what account??
Is this normal? Are only Facebook people allowed to foster dogs now? This feels ludicrous when there’s a whole internet of other better tools. And everyone who has Facebook has an email account anyway. I’m a millennial and very few of my peers even log in to Facebook anymore regardless; not to mention anyone younger than us. Why is this the exclusive channel for pet rescue somehow?