5 ms·
> When did having a website become something exclusively for old people? It's more that having a website never became a thing for many businesses in the first
by nicoburns 3y ago
> When did having a website become something exclusively for old people?
It's more that having a website never became a thing for many businesses in the first place. 30 years ago they might have had a listing in the phone book. Nowadays that kind of business might have a facebook page, or more recently an instagram account. Creating a website (even with something like wix) requires a level of skill and effort above that.
- smallerfish 3y agoThey're just being cheap. Facebook is free (and "everybody has Facebook") whereas Wix and Squarespace are $12-$15/mo for businesses.
- vundercind 3y agoFor a lot of businesses, a website receives way fewer views than any one of their top-3 social media sites. I’ve seen a lot who are still paying for a site but rarely bother to update it. All the traffic’s on Facebook.
- caskstrength 3y agoIt is not just 15$ a month. You need to pay someone to develop the website in the first place and then deal with all kinds of issues that eventually arise (updating the underlying framework and/or getting hacked and dealing with the consequences, solving random stuff like expired SSL certificate, etc.).
- reticulan 3y agoIdk how something like a cafe would necessarily benefit the business to have a dedicated website. A facebook (or google maps) page presents relevant info such as location/hours/menu in a predefined schema, so neither the owner or the customer need to worry about formatting it (or understanding the format).