Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’

I am a big fan of Facebook and the myriad of marketing opportunities offered by this social media portal.  That said, Facebook’s executive Elliot Schrage didn’t provide me many “warm fuzzies”  in the recent The New York Times article.

Schrage answered privacy-related questions that stem from Facebook’s April 21st release with new privacy-related features.  The most important question asked is “Why Facebook didn’t make its features opt-in instead of opt-out?”  With the new feature Facebook automatically shares users’ names, pictures and other information with Yelp, Microsoft Docs and Pandora.

I guess it isn’t a big leap of faith that the “sands” might shift as Facebook evolves and looks at various means to generate revenue — given, it is still FREE (kinda).  I just thought the revenue paradigm that they would emulate would be the advertising revenue path as opposed to selling customer data and defending their position — to their 400 million-plus members — using semantics.

This might be a good time to review your security settings in Facebook to ensure the level of sharing you find appropriate.