Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps

Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by CodeCube on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @05:26PM (#11442272)

or maybe it's a failure of tech in general that maintaining a website isn't worth the cost and/or the effort ;)

That was a glib remark, but in all seriousness ... for the average non-technical user, who's friends are all on Facebook, their event and group system is a godsend. Non-FB solutions should realize that and figure out ways to make more accessible (and cheap ... aka free) systems

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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by ghaff on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @05:42PM (#11442390)

Squarespace is apparently pretty popular for small websites and it's not especially expensive--but it's not free and I appreciate that the difference between free and $10-20/month is a big difference for a community group or other small non-commercial organization/individual that just wants a page up on the Web.

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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by kobayashi on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:58AM (#11445515)

My understanding is that Wix is great for free design (though its a freemium business model, I believe). Though, I'm not sure of the hosting structure.

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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by Shenxi on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:02PM (#11443801)

Yes, and Facebook users are not aware that they are paying for Facebook, so the price comparison is brutal.

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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by CodeCube on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:19PM (#11448473)

Many parts of the general populace don't care about the whole "if you're not paying, you're the product" mentality. They happily ignore as many ads as you want to throw at them, as long as they can coordinate little timmy's birthday party.

The world is complicated :)

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