It can be hard to find specific things or even know what you’re looking for when it comes to planning your wedding. In the past, many would turn to their family and friends for advice but with an ever-growing market of choices at our disposal, many feel the need to branch out and cast their nets wider into the recommendation world: enter Facebook and the many social media platforms we use and enjoy.
Here are the pros and cons of letting this much-used app dictate your wedding day choices.
Facebook helps make you aware of a vast number of services
Asking for a Facebook recommendation is a bit like opening Pandora’s Box: you never know exactly what you’ll find! This can be pretty overwhelming, but at the same time, you will be in a much better position to know what’s out there and what you might not even have thought of to begin with.
You can do a background check on the information you get on Facebook itself
Many of the recommendations you will get are connected with Facebook pages which means that you can click on a link you’ve been given and take a look at what the company or the service which has been recommended is about. Facebook pages can give people a clear indication of whether or not the service advertised is something that they will be interested in or not.
You can never be sure of the story behind the recommendation
While many recommendations are genuine, there are quite a few which aren’t. Many companies have taken to paying for people to give them positive recommendations even if the person in question hasn’t personally used the service they are raving about. Other people will negatively review or not recommend something for their own personal reasons which have nothing to do with how good or bad the product is. It’s always important to take things with a pinch of salt.
Always beware of scams
If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Many a person has been scammed into leaving a deposit on something they’ve seen on a Facebook ad to only discover later on that the deal came with a lot of hidden terms and conditions. Wedding sites like Get Hitched eliminate this issue because they put couples straight into contact with the people they need to speak to and cut out the middleman (or advert). It even tailors everything to your budget, which means that you always know exactly how much you’re going to spend.
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