Facebook reminds me a lot of AOL in this regard that it is the internet for most people: in the early internet AOL was the internet for the casual user: someone

Facebook reminds me a lot of AOL in this regard that it is the internet for most people: in the early internet AOL was the internet for the casual user: someone who wanted to maybe check some messages, check the news on a few sites, and check in on a few groups. The same type of user now prefers Facebook to be their portal to the internet because in their view why not have it all in one place? The rest of the internet is confusing. There's viruses and all these scary things out there! And I won't know how to find anything! All my friends are here already, why would I go anywhere else? I know most of the younger generation doesn't think like this, but then again Facebook isn't a young person's platform anymore. I would almost certainly prefer that those small businesses had their own website that I could visit, but I know most people don't think like that, and the business itself doesn't want to pay some random dev shop whatever fee to develop and run it when they can just post it on facebook and get 80% of the benefit.