Do you have first-hand knowledge of social networking sites?

[mojo]

Originally Posted by bonustreak

I have A facebook and I am finding ways to market with it and there are many ways I have found I do not have a network set up and I do not use it for looking for people, I infact want it strictly for industry friends/family, I don't want to be searched out by the wrong folks if you know what I mean....lol I do have another set up just for business purposes it is not finished as of yet but it is in place to market with and for forum members to join and get the lastest promos we have etc. This is the new "viral" marketing and I am excited about it!!

Cheers!

This looks like the way to go bonustreak. I'll have to come by and say hello. I don't know anything about networking and what securities are in place.

I have just signed up to facebook and joined the GPWA's. I'm paranoid too so I didn't use my "real" name. I have gotten alot of porn spam from when I signed up at myspace. I also have no clue what I'm doing so baby steps for now.

[bets@betsfreebets.co]

I think it helps to have links across social platforms as google likes this now...

[greek39]

The more pertinent question here, do the risks justify the gains? Social networking has history spanning over twenty years. Always has been the prime hunting ground for malicious hackers. Social Networking is fundamentally flawed for all time. This I am afraid will never change.

The malicious ones are counting on users to carry on being naïve about the real dangers.

Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals.

Source: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew..._name=&no_ads=

So the question remains, do the risks justify the gains? For myself definitely not because the malicious ones are always two years ahead.

Just a thought

greek39

[Nandakishore]

I am in Facebook, LinkedIn and XING. I must say I have not made much of these networks so far, but that is going to change now.

Nandakishore
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[mojo]

I started a group today at facebook. It's pretty cool. I will use it for industry related purposes, no personal info nessacary.

Does anyone know if you can replace their advertisements with your own?

[thepokerkeep]

Unfortunately, you can't replace the ads but, you can post your own on your wall. When yopu post a link it allows you to post some text and a picture to go along with it.

You can also place ads in "marketplace".

[MichaelCorfman]

And if you build a facebook application you have control of the section of the page within which your application runs and placing ads there is under your complete control.

[MichaelCorfman]

Originally Posted by greek39

Social Networking is fundamentally flawed for all time. This I am afraid will never change.

Well, I could argue that e-mail and websites are fundamentally flawed also from a security perspective.

They enable are sorts of nasty things to be done to those who are too trusting of unknown entities.

In my opinion facebook, while they don't have it all correct by any means, have done a lot of things right. The security model is fairly robust and allows you to specifically deny access to information except when it is explicitly granted. Of course, if you grant access to sensitive information to friends or groups, then you better be sure you are willing to trust those friends or members of those groups with the information you have granted them. By default, those who are not friends or members of groups you have joined, have access to almost nothing in your profile (just your published name and photo, and the same information about your friends).

In fact, from a security perspective, I think they provide an infrastructure that will enable us to develop some Casino City applications that will be a lot more trustworthy within that environment than we could possibly make them otherwise on our own.

Michael

[greek39]

I certainly agree Michael. I was just trying to point out the potential dangers and whether or not it is worth the risk. If I had not seen the risk first hand I would have never mentioned it.

greek39

[Simmo!]

I like the true concept of social networking, but I think they have a limited long-term commercial value to advertisers. My experience of "social" sites in the past, forums aside, is that when something like this gets high-profile, marketeers and commercial peeps move in and very often, as a result, social users tend to move on to someplace else. Of course a lot of this effect can be countered with careful moderation but that's not always possible on a large site, so you end up with a virtual version of the Italian Job ad infinitum: new sites coming up, old sites losing popularity, etc etc. I guess if you like the chase, it can work long term, and I am sure there are short-term gains, but I think personally there are better, more durable ways to spend one's time when it comes to marketing.