I FUCKING HATE the trend where governments/companies/businesses/etc all stopped having their own websites and started just using facebook. Especially since (maybe its still true, i don't know) you had to have an account and log in to see a business page.
Fuck that nonsense.
At least my town has a mailing list that you can opt-in to for various announcements around town.
Even if they come up with some SMS solution or mass email after registering for alerts but none of that exists I can live with that. Now I bet if I were a welfare nigger I would personal calls with my case worker at the welfare office.