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Facebook is perhaps the most frightening for me, because for many people Facebook is the internet! Something I absolutely hate is when I want to learn more abo

Facebook is perhaps the most frightening for me, because for many people Facebook is the internet! Something I absolutely hate is when I want to learn more about a local business and search for them on Google, but all I find is a Facebook page with minimal info - what happened to websites?!

artificial 6y ago
Facebook is like AOL in the heyday: a curated contained world complete with IM. Chrome is effectively IE6 as Blink makes up a significant portion of the browser engines these days and many only test against it. Need some "Best viewed in Chrome!" gifs.
irrational 6y ago
I know. It would be okay if you could view Facebook pages without an account, but since I don’t have one, all of those pages (including many friends and family members) are entirely shut out for me.
sdevonoes 6y ago
Facebook is "free" (as in it does not cost money to open a profile and post info there). Websites are not, and even if they are, not all people know how to publish something to a website. I hate it too yeah, but for non-techie people Facebook is just plain simple.
sp332 6y ago
This effect is even stronger in certain countries where Facebook pays ISPs to zero-rate their pages, so many people only have access to Facebook because they can't afford to access the rest of the internet. If you think clickbait headlines are bad, imagine not having the ability to even click through to the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero
xtracto 6y ago
> Facebook is perhaps the most frightening for me, because for many people Facebook is the internet! This reminded me the times of Mozilla Netscape, IE and Firefox. I remember having conversations in /. about how for "normal people" the big blue E icon is the Internet and that grandmas of the world cried that "the internet was gone" when that icon disappeard. Then it was Google, and now it is Facebook.
- GordonS 6y ago
  At least then it was the means of accessing the web, rather than the web itself.
jopsen 6y ago
> what happened to websites?! Did you ever think that many businesses never had a website. Even fewer had one that was up-to-date and useful. What happened is that the masses found their way in to the web, and they did it the easiest way possible. There is still many independent businesses that have a small website. You haven't proven that the number of such independent business websites has declined. Most likely, the fraction of small businesses that has an online presence has increased. And this may have skewed the ratio of websites to Facebook pages. But in absolute numbers, I doubt there's fewer small independent websites today.

artificial 6y ago

Facebook is like AOL in the heyday: a curated contained world complete with IM. Chrome is effectively IE6 as Blink makes up a significant portion of the browser engines these days and many only test against it. Need some "Best viewed in Chrome!" gifs.

irrational 6y ago

I know. It would be okay if you could view Facebook pages without an account, but since I don’t have one, all of those pages (including many friends and family members) are entirely shut out for me.

sdevonoes 6y ago

Facebook is "free" (as in it does not cost money to open a profile and post info there). Websites are not, and even if they are, not all people know how to publish something to a website. I hate it too yeah, but for non-techie people Facebook is just plain simple.

sp332 6y ago

This effect is even stronger in certain countries where Facebook pays ISPs to zero-rate their pages, so many people only have access to Facebook because they can't afford to access the rest of the internet. If you think clickbait headlines are bad, imagine not having the ability to even click through to the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero

xtracto 6y ago

> Facebook is perhaps the most frightening for me, because for many people Facebook is the internet! This reminded me the times of Mozilla Netscape, IE and Firefox. I remember having conversations in /. about how for "normal people" the big blue E icon is the Internet and that grandmas of the world cried that "the internet was gone" when that icon disappeard. Then it was Google, and now it is Facebook.

GordonS 6y ago
At least then it was the means of accessing the web, rather than the web itself.

jopsen 6y ago

> what happened to websites?! Did you ever think that many businesses never had a website. Even fewer had one that was up-to-date and useful. What happened is that the masses found their way in to the web, and they did it the easiest way possible. There is still many independent businesses that have a small website. You haven't proven that the number of such independent business websites has declined. Most likely, the fraction of small businesses that has an online presence has increased. And this may have skewed the ratio of websites to Facebook pages. But in absolute numbers, I doubt there's fewer small independent websites today.