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I decided to take a break from FB for a few weeks as it was feeling addictive. (Still on Messenger and IG so I'm not a purist.) I quickly found that many of m

by biztos 6y ago

I decided to take a break from FB for a few weeks as it was feeling addictive. (Still on Messenger and IG so I'm not a purist.) I quickly found that many of my local business have an online presence only on Facebook. No web site, no freebie aggregator type thing, nothing, just FB. This in a major European city. It makes me wonder if it might be useful, as a public service, to have some kind of free business listing that (with your permission) automatically duplicates what you put on Facebook, just to encourage people to at least be discoverable outside that walled garden.

JadeNB 6y ago
> It makes me wonder if it might be useful, as a public service, to have some kind of free business listing that (with your permission) automatically duplicates what you put on Facebook, just to encourage people to at least be discoverable outside that walled garden. You know that Facebook would immediately start either offering incentives to keep all your data in the walled garden, or spreading FUD about the duplicator ("how can you trust what happens once your information leaves our loving embrace?").
- Const-me 6y ago
  They can also remove that integration any moment they like, by revoking an app ID. Very likely they'll be able to find a paragraph in their developer program T&C they can claim was violated by GP.
  - biztos 6y ago
    I agree and for these reasons won't be the one to try it. It's funny (in a sad way) but even for my friends who own restaurants, where I'd be more than happy to give them free hosting or help them upload stuff or whatever, they don't see anything other than FB as worth the effort even to just keep track of. Obviously that's not universally true, plenty of places (especially higher-end ones, and ones with significant delivery business) have dedicated web sites that are kept up to date.
  - plutonic 6y ago
    Of course the public application could just scrape Facebook, as the Supreme Court has ruled that webscraping is not illegal (well, at least in the United States). [0] [0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kek83/linkedin-data-scraping-lawsuit-shot-down https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kek83/linkedin-data-scra...

by biztos 6y ago

JadeNB 6y ago

> It makes me wonder if it might be useful, as a public service, to have some kind of free business listing that (with your permission) automatically duplicates what you put on Facebook, just to encourage people to at least be discoverable outside that walled garden. You know that Facebook would immediately start either offering incentives to keep all your data in the walled garden, or spreading FUD about the duplicator ("how can you trust what happens once your information leaves our loving embrace?").

Const-me 6y ago
They can also remove that integration any moment they like, by revoking an app ID. Very likely they'll be able to find a paragraph in their developer program T&C they can claim was violated by GP.
- biztos 6y ago
  I agree and for these reasons won't be the one to try it. It's funny (in a sad way) but even for my friends who own restaurants, where I'd be more than happy to give them free hosting or help them upload stuff or whatever, they don't see anything other than FB as worth the effort even to just keep track of. Obviously that's not universally true, plenty of places (especially higher-end ones, and ones with significant delivery business) have dedicated web sites that are kept up to date.
- plutonic 6y ago
  Of course the public application could just scrape Facebook, as the Supreme Court has ruled that webscraping is not illegal (well, at least in the United States). [0] [0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kek83/linkedin-data-scraping-lawsuit-shot-down https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kek83/linkedin-data-scra...