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Unfortunately, businesses have to go to where the customers are. Many customers now are 100% Facebook-era, particularly true of the young and those older folk

Unfortunately, businesses have to go to where the customers are. Many customers now are 100% Facebook-era, particularly true of the young and those older folk late to computing, and it might not occur to them to check https://www.widgetsRus.com https://www.widgetsRus.com before searching for Widgets R Us on Facebook. Updating a 'personal' site is also a PITA IF you don't know what you are doing or don't have a streamlined process, e.g. for me I'd just amend the .htm page to say I'm shut from 2pm and FTP it up, 2 minutes, but someone non-savvy will always prefer to post a new message on FB saying 'hey, shutting at 2pm today', takes even less time and less cognitive load. I'm not saying this is a good thing, by the way. But it's understandable. EDIT: Not to mention, updating a site on the move is difficult. Pull latest version of site (Github), amend .htm (some notepad app?), then an FTP client on the phone, log in, find, push the file, close, check. Versus opening the FB app and doing some typing.

pbhjpbhj 4y ago
If we actually got the semantic web that was promised, back in the burgeoning xhtml days, then it seems like Facebook / own website could simply duplicate the latest data from the other page.
- mawise 4y ago
  There's a nifty tool called Bridgy that helps with this--it's out of the IndieWeb community with their POSSE model: Post on Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/
mattl 4y ago
Is there a technical reason you’re only using three letter extensions for HTML files?
- shadowofneptune 4y ago
  The 8.3 filename structure has a long half-life.
- zakki 4y ago
  I guess related to Windows file extension in the past. 3 letters only.
  - mattl 4y ago
    8.3 is CP/M or maybe earlier even, I guess?
bachmeier 4y ago
> Pull latest version of site (Github) What does that have to do with personal site vs Facebook? If Github is a problem, don't use Github if you regularly need to update and for some reason you can't do it using the web editor. I mean, WordPress is kind of a big deal. There's nothing wrong with Facebook if you like a kind of ugly website that randomly pops up crap to prevent people from viewing your site. If you're concerned about people that only use Facebook and no other sites, you can duplicate material on Facebook.

pbhjpbhj 4y ago

If we actually got the semantic web that was promised, back in the burgeoning xhtml days, then it seems like Facebook / own website could simply duplicate the latest data from the other page.

mawise 4y ago
There's a nifty tool called Bridgy that helps with this--it's out of the IndieWeb community with their POSSE model: Post on Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere https://brid.gy/ https://brid.gy/

mattl 4y ago

Is there a technical reason you’re only using three letter extensions for HTML files?

shadowofneptune 4y ago
The 8.3 filename structure has a long half-life.
zakki 4y ago
I guess related to Windows file extension in the past. 3 letters only.
- mattl 4y ago
  8.3 is CP/M or maybe earlier even, I guess?

bachmeier 4y ago

> Pull latest version of site (Github) What does that have to do with personal site vs Facebook? If Github is a problem, don't use Github if you regularly need to update and for some reason you can't do it using the web editor. I mean, WordPress is kind of a big deal. There's nothing wrong with Facebook if you like a kind of ugly website that randomly pops up crap to prevent people from viewing your site. If you're concerned about people that only use Facebook and no other sites, you can duplicate material on Facebook.