I don't agree. I mean yeah sometimes websites are way out of date, but things like Facebook give the ability to push current updates easily (and economically) to people. Is a guy who owns a restaurant want to have to call up his "webmaster" to update his site's database and/or html pages with the night's specials, or does he just want to easily go on his phone, pull up his page, and say hey people, here are tonight's specials?! Now that is not excuse for businesses that don't put the necessary thorough information on their websites. I agree Facebook does have some funky ways of showing updates from various pages and not showing too. They do have a "list" function you can create so as to group Pages from various sites so you can be sure to see what you want on that Group Feed. Never tried it though.
We're getting off topic here, but as a "webmaster" and content creator, I can certainly understand the
ease of Facebook - but people need to understand that Facebook is not a reliable source. Their algorithms rarely show more than 30% of fans new content (unless the Page buys more visibility from FB), their streaming service is sub-par, due to video compression and time-limits, and as was stated earlier, it's not a searchable data archive, so anyone searching on Google/Bing will never see results that point to a specific post. So, discovery and SEO are completely lost on FB.
What I mean is if I "Like" a page, it's up to the algorithms that drive Facebook, to deliver that page's newest content to my feed as I browse. We all already know that they don't default to a chronological ordering, which immediately present problems for Pages to consistently get their information out to their fans. Ultimately the task falls to the "fan" to search out their intended Page and get the latest information. This is no different than any other website in that regard, and FB makes it more tedious to do.
To your point about having to contact a webmaster to update the site for the day's specials ... that is a horribly designed website and if I were the restaurant owner, I would immediately seek out a new webmaster/web developer. But I understand your point - and it was the default way of doing things 20 years ago, but in today's constant-data-flow mindset, that should never, ever, be the case.
Aside from all of that ... I'm really excited to watch some amazing 10-ball today!! :grin-square:
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