How much Facebook integration should one consider with ones websites? As an employee of a print media and radio media, I can see the advantages of this social media phenomenon in helping us communicate with our readers and listeners, especially younger ones that might not be too interested in our print or radio format, but would check out our Internet presence if we have the information they want.
Is simply linking to one’s Facebook page what most of you do, or do you embed the “Like” button into your site (available as an iFrame). Do you avoid Javascript based embedded content? Walter was commenting on someone’s Facebook query recently and although he didn’t come right out and say it, he was kinda implying that Facebook can have a bit of a big brother evil corporation attitude at times.
I can’t imagine that I wasn’t blunt enough! They are evil, and they
apparently make no bones about it. They have the “roach motel” policy,
where they will scrape anybody else’s address book (data checks in),
but won’t reciprocate to another service that wants to use their
address book (but it doesn’t check out). They deliberately obfuscate
their privacy settings, make things shared by default rather than opt-
in, I could go on and on. Their entire business model revolves around
gathering a deep and wide profile of each and every user in their
system, as well as any sites that use the “like” button, and then they
sell that information as many different ways as they can think to
slice it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Facebook is
aggressively non-free.
Walter
On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Joe Sporleder wrote:
Walter was commenting on someone’s Facebook query recently and
although he didn’t come right out and say it, he was kinda implying
that Facebook can have a bit of a big brother evil corporation
attitude at times.