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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by groby_b on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:08PM (#39832878)
Their competence is measured by their success, not your opinions. And it turns out that in many professions, an insta is the thing you need for success.

If you don't like it, that's your problem, not theirs. You're part of a small enough group they don't care about. I'm not sure how that's an age question in the first place, though. The "being run by millenials" throwaway by GP is just... well, at best, sloppy thinking.

There are GenZ businesses websiting, there are boomers insta-ing. You pick the tool for your niche.

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by morkalork on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:49PM (#39834156)
Well, I went to the bakery and I can attest that they are indeed run by millennials. I will argue with the technical ineptness point made earlier though. If you can figure out how to make videos with music and edit in animated graphics using the tools Instagram or whoever else provides, you can figure out Wix's website builder.
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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by motoxpro on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:07PM (#39834278)
Why do you need them to have a website? A thing that has no traffic, no discoverabilty, needs to be updated, paid for, etc?

All the information is already on google maps and IG/Facebook.

They have 2-3 billion people in their target audience.

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by morkalork on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:37PM (#39834506)
Well presumably a website would be accessible to everyone, account login and government ID or not.
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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by motoxpro on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @02:39AM (#39836232)
I guess that’s my point though. isn't it a very rational BUSINESS decision to go some where 80% of people and probably 99% of their target market are on these platforms that provide them with free distribution? Outside of the moral qualms of that 1% of people that don’t have a social media account or use google?
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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by groby_b on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:38PM (#39834510)
Sure. Would you also remark on their hair color? Shoe size? First letter of their name? Because those are likely about as relevant to their choice of advertising medium. It might be true, but there's no relevance.

And the point isn't if Wix is hard or not. It's that they answered the question "where do we need to advertise" for themselves, and just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong.

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by wannacboatmovie on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:45PM (#39834551)
Placing your online marketing behind an auth wall (Insta) is the definition of incompetence.
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