There is a live debate going on at TinyScreenfuls and John Bancroft’s posting of Should Intel Ban Facebook? Most of the responses have been to ban it. That surprises me considering where I found the link. Jeremiah Owyang is against it, saying “If they do ban Facebook, they might as well ban the rest of the web, but intel.com.”

Hate to break it to you Jeremiah, but there are lots of companies that don’t want their employees burning time adding new applications and talking to friends. Why do you think MySpace was banned? Yeah, security and all. But really it’s a productivity thing.

This is going to get more interesting as time passes.

Banning Facebook Debate is a post from: Kate Morris

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.

Facebook, Privacy, and SEOs is a post from: Kate Morris

The question he’s been getting a lot: Is Facebook the next Google? I think they are two different things. Can Facebook get the same kind of hype? Yes, that’s the “likeness” it has to GOogle.

Facebook has experienced 2 tipping points according to the statistics – corporate network and opening access to anyone with an email address. There’s definitely a market share increase of pages: the site broke into the top 10 of all Internet sites in March 2007. Opening application development could lead to the next tipping point.

Here are my thoughts on Facebook and it’s popularity. I was on it when it started. I still had access to my college email address then (don’t anymore, 3 years after graduation) and liked it. But more of my old friends from HS were on MySpace. They were allowed there.

But Facebook was cleaner.

Then they opened it to everyone and it gained popularity. But I have a theory, a more unseen one, as to who Facebook is more popular. It’s not banned at work yet.

MySpace was/is a time hog. I used to spend hours making my page look right, changing it on my mood, and I know code! Most people don’t … imagine how long that took?

But now with applications and such, and the opening to everyone … I am thinking it’s only a matter of time. I’m not saying it’s going down. I’m just saying it’s not any better. It’s just different. Google vs Yahoo. They both have their uses.

Facebook: The Real Post is a post from: Kate Morris