Going months at a time without his Facebook account for his legal practice has allegedly cost him thousands of dollars in advertising and communication with clients
Take a hint, get a professional website and don’t rely on Facebook to host your business.
You have to meet clients where they are. These days, clients are far less likely to find you if you only have a site with no social media presence.
I guess… But if your web presence is only on Facebook and that’s the first result I see then … hard pass
That’s my daily battle. I’m looking for something in my country, and there are these “businesses” that only show on Facebook or Instagram, both of which are entirely blocked at the network and device level in my house. So I’ll never do business with them. If you don’t have an actual web site with relevant information, I just keep looking.
The silver lining of having friends that won’t leave those platforms for nothing in the world is being able to interact with those businesses through them.
Demanding a small business has their own website before you do business with them is peak Lemmy.
This site is way out of touch with what the typical person has the knowledge or time to do.
Same here
But he has a website… He’s just saying Facebook denied him additional exposure unfairly.
Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.
That’s especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).
which is the dumbest shit in the world. why the fuck are people on facebook?
Have you tried explaining something to someone lately? A lot of people don’t care and don’t understand. About anything
Well marketplace basically killed Craig’s list, so that’s one reason.
This one irks me. I grabbed an Auto-Trader paper today as I was reminiscing about how local trader-papers used to be a thing. I got my NES and Saxophone that way. I still have one of those. -Then craigslist ended that and now that has been replaced by a website that requires membership to read the listings.
People are on Facebook because that’s where everyone already is. They won’t leave because then they lose contact with all those people.
‘People who spend too much time on Facebook’ overlaps with ‘People who need cheap lawyers.’
I’m on Facebook because many people I communicate or work with and pages and groups relevant to my interests are active there.
It’s *Meta*
You could say the same about any social media site really.
The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they’re more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they’re more active on TikTok and Instagram.
I guess understandable for initial discovery, but it’s on the lawyer if they didn’t hand out a contact card with email phone and whatnot to all clients
Devils advocate, perhaps he did and clients still reached out on FB. When he got banned they assumed he ghosted and went with another lawyer.
I would believe that theory. People are dumb enough to make that entirely feasible.
But if your name is Marc Zuckerberg, why not act like you want to and sue.
The attorney is asking for restitution —and a week on Zuckerberg’s yacht.
What
I was in danger of having sympathy for a lawyer, then this brought me back.
Way to take a serious matter and make it comical.
If you look at the actual quote, that is quite editorialized. My reading if the quote was that it was said in jest.
An Indianapolis based bankruptcy attorney, named Mark Steven Zuckerberg, is suing Meta over repeated confusion with CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
That’s far less crazy than the clickbait headline had me believe.
What did you think the headline meant?
I thought it meant it was the same guy. Like I didn’t know if the FB Mark ever finished college or got a law degree or if he’s representing himself. You know how some people will sue themselves or the company they started so they are the plaintiff and the defense.
The irony of this comment goes through the roof
The weirdest thing is that it wouldn’t be the first time a party has sued itself.
I was actually hoping it was this. My top level response would have been the same though.
Zuckerberg charges Zuckerberg with crime. Jury shrugs, offers death penalty.
That’s taking “legal suicide” to a whole new level. I’m impressed.
Some rich people shit to avoid paying taxes or something like that.
That’s the first thing that came to mind.
Some sort of scheme.
Ah and how exactly is that less crazy?
Because I thought the two were one and the same.
Yeah, I assumed it was some corporate shenanigans where Zuckerberg sues himself and somehow ends up with more money because of it.
To me, that is about as crazy as suing someone for his name.
Suing for what? Defamation because they think the lawyer is as sleazy as the ceo?
Thank you for saving me a click.
no way why should i change hes the one who sucks
Everything was fine until that no talent ass clown started making social media sites.
Reminds me of how after WW2 people stopped calling their kids Adolf or even changed their name Adolf into something else. I mean, I’m not saying Zuckerberg is literally Hitler or something, but it sure is funnily similar.
Same thing happened after WW1 too btw. The strong anti-German sentiments across the US and Europe prompted multiple changes. William and Vilhelm became Bills or Ville; Müller became Miller; Schmidt became Smith.
I had a lot of Swedish family who did this from around 1915-1930 and as you said, again after WW2.
See? I knew the different instances of this bot would start fighting each other one day.
I’m pretty confident this is literally just advertising. Stop promoting this please. The guy is just doing something stupid because people will share it on social media.
Nope. This is a real attorney. I walk by his office downtown.
I’m not saying he’s not real. I’m saying this is an ad. It’s a meme lawsuit to get attention. It isn’t a serious one.
Why are they even assuming someone would want to impersonate meta Zuckerberg?
Serious answer: A surprising number of people, especially those who still have Facebook accounts in 2025, are susceptible to scams where someone pretends to be a rich and/or famous person asking for favours or money.
They get a message from a fake Zuck, and because they are dangerously credulous, they believe it is the real Zuck.
Zuck says they’ve been selected, or won a prize, or should send a photo or some such, and then suddenly Zuck’s blackmailing for a compromising photo or otherwise requesting Amazon gift cards or Bitcoin to “unlock” the prize or whatever.
“Zuck’s a rich man who owns the platform. He knows what he’s doing. I’d better look into how to do this Bitcoin thing.”
Facebook knows all this and so any Zucks that are not the Zuck get flagged as scammers and have their accounts shut down.
He should just host his own instance and… oh, wait…
