beezer wroteI used to work on websites a few years ago, now being in Lebanon for 2 years and seeing businesses with @gmail and @hotmail email addresses are kind of a normal thing, then when I ask about their website to see their brochure or examples of their work they send me to a facebook page.
How do you guys feel about that?
Coming from outside I feel it's really unprofessional to have a facebook/Instagram account but not have a main website, like your social media should be supporting your website and not completely replacing it. And at a time when it's damn cheap to create a website why aren't people doing thing, what started this trend here?
I've also seen a few people who consider themselves "social media gurus" that are just provocative, dull, speak non sense but they have thousands of followers and they go around "promoting" products/stores and guarantee them more likes and followers and when I tell these store owners that "likes don't save lives" and "likes don't liberate Palestine" they agree but still go and do that.
Can someone please explain this to me and tell me your thoughts; what am I missing? Is this just a Bekaa thing?
It could be as simple as this, people mostly use smartphones nowadays, and most people that use smartphones crash Chrome/Browsers with thousand tabs let alone having them enter URL address. Much easier to open up and use Facebook. Most Generation X didn't touch a computer in mid 2000's in Lebanon unlike the west when it was required for businesses and other "developed country" motivations; and thus haven't heard or used a browser/WWW.