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it's also a fault of the websites themselves. In the off chance that an average facebook user uses google to search and end up in a website outside facebook, th

it's also a fault of the websites themselves. In the off chance that an average facebook user uses google to search and end up in a website outside facebook, they 'll be typically be pestered with signing up to a newsletter and then with a popup to get browser notifications (along with a cookie popup in europe). The User experience will be usually atrocious, with content hidden way behind the ads. At that point the user is not only lost in the UI, but has lost all trust to the website itself and runs back to its trusted facebook. Why would they ever want to subscribe to such monstrosities? It's a tragedy of the common monetization "secrets" that marketers promised equally to everyone. If webmasters and bloggers realized the benefit of a honest , dead simple user experience, they might earn themselves a bookmark (which is currently the only alternative to social media that average users can probably understand)

XorNot 8y ago
The huge number of forums which have that Tapatalk insanity pop up on mobile...
jsilence 8y ago
yeah, wholeheartedly agreed. and it is also sometimes the peoples fault when they forget civility and humility in discussions and behave like a$$holes. othertimes sane and healthy online communities fail to defend themselves against those and against more sneaky trolls. on top of that communication manners seem to degrade more and more with social media usage. I am often appauled by the tight lipped one line responses to contact messages on $craigslist-like-service. a friendly message asking about the availability of an item on sale is met with "yes it is still available.". no "hello", no end greeting, nothing along the lines of "if you'd like to buy, give me a call at $number".
herbst 8y ago
I think both Facebook and poorly used screen space are good indicators for low quality content. Makes it incredible easy to just move along.

XorNot 8y ago

The huge number of forums which have that Tapatalk insanity pop up on mobile...

jsilence 8y ago

yeah, wholeheartedly agreed. and it is also sometimes the peoples fault when they forget civility and humility in discussions and behave like a$$holes. othertimes sane and healthy online communities fail to defend themselves against those and against more sneaky trolls. on top of that communication manners seem to degrade more and more with social media usage. I am often appauled by the tight lipped one line responses to contact messages on $craigslist-like-service. a friendly message asking about the availability of an item on sale is met with "yes it is still available.". no "hello", no end greeting, nothing along the lines of "if you'd like to buy, give me a call at $number".

herbst 8y ago

I think both Facebook and poorly used screen space are good indicators for low quality content. Makes it incredible easy to just move along.