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Perhaps this will result in a re-booted demand for custom websites that replace Facebook business pages, or at least take on more responsibilities and tasks tha
by exodust 9y ago
Perhaps this will result in a re-booted demand for custom websites that replace Facebook business pages, or at least take on more responsibilities and tasks that would otherwise be left to FB.
Over the years I've seen many businesses including those I've worked for (as frontend developer) putting effort into Facebook and diminishing effort into their own websites (the kind that I make for a living).
It surprised and disappointed me over the years as I saw organisations move in and start paying Facebook to promote posts. The misguided assumption that user behaviour was better quality because of the real name policy (not true); and that "everyone was on it". There's also a mistaken perception that Facebook is good for long form or archived topics, such as factual content, but this is not correct. It's awful for anything other than recent buzz.
We seem to have lots of nice new web technology standards, but there's an absence of something approaching a "social profile" or system whereby users and businesses can create, manage, share, follow, and control 100% the data in some social context web mechanism, decoupled from a closed platform with CEO at the top. I don't pretend to have the solution on how that might be possible.