What a trip this has been. Saturday night around midnight, after a Facebook status and a few comments, I decided to take the step of a creating a Facebook Group, Save The Cactus (Austin, Texas), in support of the Cactus Cafe’s announced closing. After one day, there were 5,000 members. Not yet at the 48-hour mark, the membership is approaching 10,000.
Do Austinites love their live music? Um, yeah.
The group has hit its top-down communicative limit, as Facebook doesn’t allow for messaging or inviting folks to events if the membership exceeds 5,000. So, more outlets have popped up:
The group is still great, though, as people continue to flock to it to share their ideas, anger, memories, and disbelief.
