Welcome Fellow Home-Based Business Owners,
One of the greatest services you can offer as an "ethical marketer" is to protect individual rights online. Sure -- we all like the social networks. It's what helps us connect and identify to those we'd like to work with most.
Facebook, MySpace And Other Social Site Activity
Social sites are great until "Facebook, MySpace and various social sites started sharing names, user IDs, and other information sufficient to enable ad companies such as Google's owned DoubleClick to identify distinct user profiles", (Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2010). Read the "pull my finger link below"...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/21/facebook.shares.data.ars/index.html?hpt=Sbin
As luck would have it, I tried to post this article over at Facebook but it was blocked three times "for offering similiar content". Hmmm.
Word in cyberspace reports, "Facebook has now stopped this practice". You'd think their 27 yr. old hoodie wearing CEO would bolster site security and stop this practice..., but being a multi-millionaire eccentric never prevented anyone from doing the right thing.
Sure -- data can be taken, or worse, if we look at the advertisers' perspective (us), "we're only getting demographic data" , but let's get real. Click the active link below to get the real "skinny":
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/21/facebook.shares.data.ars/index.html?hpt=Sbin
I've always cautioned fellow marketers online, never reveal true or personally identifiable information in these networks. Yes -- form a quick post but forget opening up your networks to "play pillow talk". There's a reason for this approach. No one will protect you so you might as well protect yourself.
Otherwise you might as well rename these sites --
openyourkimono.com
slapmyfacebook.org
dropyourdraws.com
hospitalgown.net
privatezone.org
looselipssinkships.net
caughtwithhandincookiejar.com
leakyfaucets.net
majorinformationleak.org
openfly.com
drippinghose.com
flexandbend.net
turnandcough.org
identitytheft.com
stealingyouridentityoneclickatatime.com
You get my marketing drift.
Keeping You Informed On Up-To-Date Marketing Trends,
B. Brinkmeyer, MBA
Internet Marketing Mentor/Instructor
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