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Because the majority of Canadians never learned what the WWW is/was, and think of the Internet only as something they get through Facebook. I'm being snarky an
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Because the majority of Canadians never learned what the WWW is/was, and think of the Internet only as something they get through Facebook.
I'm being snarky and exaggerating, but it's not far off. Companies & contractors etcget squirrely & weird about e-mail, don't respond to it... but respond to Facebook Messenger in an instant, or have a Twitter feed. Schools & schoolboards don't update their own websites, but post updates on Twitter and Facebook. Want to find out about school snow day closure? You're going to hear about it on Twitter first, etc. Road closures from the city? Traffic incidents, fires, or crime notices from the police or fire department? Have fun finding it on anything other than social media.
It's a bleak, privatized, walled-off state of affairs, the opposite of what we were all pushing for in the 90s.