Operation FACEBOOK is on right NOW!

Ick!

Joe Raby — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:01:57 GMT

I avoid "free" service websites like the plague. I rarely give out my email address and personal information to websites where you know (or maybe don't) that they'll sell it to advertisers.

Sure, sure, they may say they don't give out information to third-parties, but they still say that they'll give it to "partners and other companies that [we] do business with". Advertisers fall under that category.

What with companies like Google not giving a crap about who is paying for advertising, they really don't care if they "accidentally" give out my info to some Chinese or Russian fraud website that would like infect my computer with a fake antivirus program - so long as they pay for that rotating ad on Google Websense, which is paid out of their dirty money that they collect through "antivirus" subcription fees that they charge to gullible consumers.

There are certainly trustworthy circles that I frequent online, but most "free" websites run by a major conglomerate are out there to collect and sell your info, and they make big bucks doing it.

When you actually ask people the top 2 reasons why conventional print publications fail, #1 is that the internet is widely and instantly available, and #2 is because they can't stand the ads.

Hellloooo! This is what's happening to the internet.

re: Operation FACEBOOK is on right NOW!

Dean — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:45:24 GMT

But you still didn't answer the question. Other than seeing faces ( which is good ) I'm not getting the point of this.

And what if they use 15 year old photos because they don't like the way they look now ?

re: Operation FACEBOOK is on right NOW!

bradley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:40:07 GMT

www.facebook.com/WindowsSBS

And in approx 2 hours and 18 minutes, vanity url status achieved.

re: Operation FACEBOOK is on right NOW!

bradley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:15:23 GMT

You certainly know what people look like now!

Social marketing will be a big push at WWPC in New Orleans. Even if you can't go, it's an interesting way to put names with faces.

re: Operation FACEBOOK is on right NOW!

Dean — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:03:56 GMT

So is the information on there information that won't be available anywhere else ?