Facebook, Privacy, and SEOs

They say that marketers are the devil. All we want is your information so that we can sell you more stuff. We bog down computers with pop-ups and spyware (at least that’s what people think I do when I say “Internet Marketing”).

Then why is it that it was a pair of internet marketers (Danny Sullivan and Lisa Barone) are the ones to notice that Facebook was posting details about people after they opted out because their friends didn’t opt out?

Yes, the horrible people are actually the saviors. Facebook is working on the issue right now. We are human beings too and don’t want certain things out in the world just as much as the next person. We just have contacts — let me rephrase — Danny and Lisa have contacts to fix problems.

People are still saying Facebook is the next big, really big thing. I still hold to my theory that it will head the direction of MySpace. The program is being bogged down with external programs and add ons. Apps that constantly ask to know what you are doing all the time. Soon enough it will be just as time consuming as MySpace and companies will ban the access because of productivity loss.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Facebook, but the original was better.