Facebook, Twitter For Business, Is It Worth the Privacy Trade-Off?
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 14 December 2012
I've been a staunch advocate of NOT joining Facebook or Twitter or the other social networks to protect my privacy and to not voluntarily give all my personal information away to corporate America, or even the Government.
Is the payoff worth the potential trade-off for generating potential customers for your business and guiding them to your primary website?
No. I haven't used FB and won't. Or any other "social network". Their primary focus is to make as much money out of your private data as possible and in return for that, they give the monkey a few cookies (literally). As long as email and open chat networks exist I won't touch FB et al; even if there's no other option left one day. At some point, a line has to be drawn.