Can We Really Trust FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Google?

I am sitting here talking to my beautiful sweet loving wife about all the things our kids will never see.  Like records!

My daughter is 12 years old but has never seen a record before.  She’s got no idea what we’re even talking about.  And doesn’t much care! 

And how much worst will with the generation be?  Growing up my dad had an antique radio.  I thought that was cool.  But then we played football, baseball, and basketball OUTSIDE.  Not by choice we weren’t allowed indoors.  Well…unless we were in trouble or going to bed.  Then there were NO games or TV.  Because we were in trouble or going to bed!

This generation brings the games with them.  Right in their hands!  Now Isn’t That Cool!

I am 43 years old but challenged my step son and nephew to a game of basketball.  During the warm-up my step son went down.  No he wasn’t hurt, just couldn’t catch his breath.  I was worried about him it took him a full 30 minutes before he picked up his hand held game.

However my nephew stuck with it and made it about 30 minutes into the game.

These kids could care less about our history.  They just want to know when the next release is coming out for the next hand held device.

Kids demonstrating all over the country acting like their doing without while holding a device that does everything any of them ever want to do.

The Internet has changed the way we view the world.  Information is sent to us in seconds. The old method of interrupting us is slowly being done away with.

My kids and grandkids will never know how intrusive marketing use to be.

If the way we market today is with conversations then the way businesses marketed before were with interruptions.  A television commercial, radio ad, direct mail, spam, anything that prevents me from doing what I am currently doing is an interruption.

We are seeing a decline in these methods because they do not connect with the customer. 

The old system is impossible to track.  And speaking as a viewer it does not connect no matter how funny you think you are.

Magazines use to get top dollar because they knew a little about their viewers.

Facebook knows when your kids graduate.  Facebook knows when it’s your wife’s birthday.  Facebook knows when your daughter is getting married.   Facebook knows where you vacation.  Facebook knows when you vacation.  Facebook knows how you vacation.  Facebook knows what you like to do and when you like to do.  Hell… Facebook knows when you’re getting a divorce or breaking up with your girlfriend before the people it’s happening to.  My son found out his great granddad had died on Facebook.

This is a marketers dream!

 

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Janeth is a marketer who works in the web design medium. She believes her job is to create techniques that target groups of people, reach out to that group, and get that group to take some form of action. This goes beyond being a simple graphic design or search engine optimizer.

70 Comments to “Can We Really Trust FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Google?”

  1. Marcie Carew says:

    What age can you start a facebook account?

  2. Anne Felton says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  3. Carrie Major says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  4. Cecilia Osburn says:

    I want to delete my facebook acount. If i PERMENTLY delete my facebook acount can I use the same email adress to make a new one later on If i decide i want one? (I want to delete it becuase i just want to add my close friends so i dont get alot of info i dont want from people so i AM going to make a new acount)

  5. Lorrie Lauro says:

    my boyfriend recently made a profile on facebook.com and he is talking with girls from that site whom he calls old friends. i know his password and i logged on this morning. i found out that he has given them his msn address and asked them to meet in person. he has also told them about me but still they were like more than friends. the girls call him honey, darling, etc. i am very angry at the moment. i want to break up with him. what should i do?

  6. Tia Zuehlke says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  7. Louisa Ellman says:

    how do u use facebook? like, what is poke, what is wall-wall, how can u talk to someone, how do u play games, how do u find people, etc.

  8. Anne Felton says:

    How do u no if someone visited u on facebook or saw ur pics?
    i have the new version of facebook but i cant find that thing D:

  9. Anne Felton says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  10. Maggie Saucier says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  11. Annette Cutter says:

    how do u delete a facebook and pictures other take of u. i dont think it is fair that anyone can take a pic of you and just post it up. it really is annoying when a photo u dont like is up and everyone can see the pic u dont like . Its still on there page if they untag u

  12. Kathleen Frias says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  13. Patsy Herring says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  14. Patty Guest says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  15. Eberhard says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  16. Anne Felton says:

    ok. so i want a facebook. my dad is all for the thing where u have to follow the age things. How old do u have to be for facebook? we have cybernanny so i can’t even get on their. so, how old do u have to be?

  17. Elinor Tuten says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  18. Noemi Madero says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  19. Joanne Mefford says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  20. Maricela Rothrock says:

    what do you like most about facebook and y do you go on it for?
    everyone goes on about it whats the big deal??

  21. Annette Cutter says:

    IS there any way I can create a bumper sticker on facebook? If so how?

  22. Saundra Jarvie says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  23. Carrie Major says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  24. Gloria Hester says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  25. Marcie Thach says:

    ok, i am 15 years old and i want to have a facebook account. I’m not going to be innapropriete things on there i just want one so i can meet new frineds and just mess around with my friens on there and talk to them because they all have facebooks except me. So i decided to talk to my mom about it, and she said i could but she would want my password and to be allowed to look on my profile and my friends profiles too. I was cool with all that except for the part about her looking at my friends files. I know they have some bad stuff and shes kind of like crazy and would like start talking to their parents and them about it. Any tips? I really really want one so please help. And I don’t want to create fake ones or just make one even if she says no. She always figures it out when I do that.

  26. Amie Wolken says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  27. Stella Sotelo says:

    Why do some Facebook friends appear more often on your Facebook Profile sidebar. Is there a known reason why some friends picture will show up more than others in the facebook sidebar?
    Because like I have a famous celebrity always pop up on my sidebar. When I never go to their profile. So is it like they’re viewing my Facebook a lot?
    Or how does it work?

  28. Opal Morrill says:

    in your opinion do you think a facebook is safe.. i am not allowed to have a myspace but what makes a facebook safe? and how is it not safe?

  29. Saundra Jarvie says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  30. Carrie Major says:

    I really want to make some extra money working from home and am interested in learning Internet marketing. I currently stay at home with my two little kids but would be able to devote about 25 hours a week to Internet marketing. It’s just that I don’t know where to start. Where do I find some great resources that help me with the Internet marketing basics as all the websites I have come across are not for absolute beginners like me?

  31. Elinor Sturgell says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  32. Christy says:

    ok, i am 15 years old and i want to have a facebook account. I’m not going to be innapropriete things on there i just want one so i can meet new frineds and just mess around with my friens on there and talk to them because they all have facebooks except me. So i decided to talk to my mom about it, and she said i could but she would want my password and to be allowed to look on my profile and my friends profiles too. I was cool with all that except for the part about her looking at my friends files. I know they have some bad stuff and shes kind of like crazy and would like start talking to their parents and them about it. Any tips? I really really want one so please help. And I don’t want to create fake ones or just make one even if she says no. She always figures it out when I do that.

  33. Elinor Tuten says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  34. Christy says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  35. Cecilia Osburn says:

    ok, i am 15 years old and i want to have a facebook account. I’m not going to be innapropriete things on there i just want one so i can meet new frineds and just mess around with my friens on there and talk to them because they all have facebooks except me. So i decided to talk to my mom about it, and she said i could but she would want my password and to be allowed to look on my profile and my friends profiles too. I was cool with all that except for the part about her looking at my friends files. I know they have some bad stuff and shes kind of like crazy and would like start talking to their parents and them about it. Any tips? I really really want one so please help. And I don’t want to create fake ones or just make one even if she says no. She always figures it out when I do that.

  36. Lola Lockwood says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  37. Loretta Neale says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  38. Anne Felton says:

    ok, i am 15 years old and i want to have a facebook account. I’m not going to be innapropriete things on there i just want one so i can meet new frineds and just mess around with my friens on there and talk to them because they all have facebooks except me. So i decided to talk to my mom about it, and she said i could but she would want my password and to be allowed to look on my profile and my friends profiles too. I was cool with all that except for the part about her looking at my friends files. I know they have some bad stuff and shes kind of like crazy and would like start talking to their parents and them about it. Any tips? I really really want one so please help. And I don’t want to create fake ones or just make one even if she says no. She always figures it out when I do that.

  39. Melissa Nason says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  40. Opal Morrill says:

    If you have facebook then answer this for me! Ok. Everyone should know that they have a new version out of facebook. Well…if you don’t ya do now! But, I was just wondering do they let you have layouts/backgrounds yet?! Because I reallly want one so i’m hoping but, i’m not sure. So just please help! Thank You! :D

  41. Harriett Legler says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  42. Margery Degarmo says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  43. Tia Zuehlke says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  44. Amie Wolken says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  45. Desmarais says:

    ok, i am 15 years old and i want to have a facebook account. I’m not going to be innapropriete things on there i just want one so i can meet new frineds and just mess around with my friens on there and talk to them because they all have facebooks except me. So i decided to talk to my mom about it, and she said i could but she would want my password and to be allowed to look on my profile and my friends profiles too. I was cool with all that except for the part about her looking at my friends files. I know they have some bad stuff and shes kind of like crazy and would like start talking to their parents and them about it. Any tips? I really really want one so please help. And I don’t want to create fake ones or just make one even if she says no. She always figures it out when I do that.

  46. Noemi Madero says:

    HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE DONE ON FACEBOOK??? LIKE WHO’S WALL YOU HAVE COMMENTED ON AND WHO YOU’VE POKED AND stuff like that? Or is it impossible?

  47. Joanne Mefford says:

    alright…so many of my friends have a facebook page and i’d like one too. my parents only talk negatively about MySpace, online chat rooms, etc. i don’t have a cell phone, which will be one of my points when trying to convince them to let me get one. what are some other points i can make to persuade my parents to let me get one?

  48. David says:

    I am the Admin of a facebook group and I want to transfer all my facebook profile friends to my facebook group for which I am the Admin without inviting personally. Is it possible to integrate the two so that all my facebook profile friends will be added to that group automatically if yes then how should I do it.
    And what If I am the creator of that group? Is it possible then or not?

  49. Franklin Bluth says:

    I was reading in the news today that Facebook has become literally addicting for many people, young and old, that it’s starting to interfere with daily functioning.

    There is now counseling and support groups to help those with specific addictions to Facebook.

    How have we gotten to this point?

  50. unbleevable39 says:

    In the People you may know section on facebook they are suggesting friends that I’ve never met in person who live in other states and have no mutual friends. How would facebook know that I know them?

  51. Random says:

    In the People you may know section on facebook they are suggesting friends that I’ve never met in person who live in other states and have no mutual friends. How would facebook know that I know them?

  52. HASTHEANSWERS says:

    Hi, I made a big mistake. I imported my outlook contacts into facebook. Facebook then sent invitations to all these people! I don’t want them to go to all these people. Also, some people have complained to me that facebook keeps sending them the invite over and over. How can I stop facebook from sending all these super annoying invites?

  53. Joe M says:

    For some odd reason I have advertisements (that aren’t supposed to be on facebook) on my facebook pages and on the facebook login page. They only seem to appear on one of the computers but not the other. I downloaded a setup thing to download shows on megaupload but then it appeared that nothing happened and it kept asking to download it. So I deleted what I download but the advertisements are still there. What do I do?

  54. Joe M says:

    My boy friend knows my email(Hotmail) password and facebook password. After we brokeup, he changed the passwords of both and updating nasty things in facebook which tanishes my name. How can i close this facebook account and hotmail account?

  55. Xavier Hawthorne says:

    I made it on my msn account so I don’t recieve facebook notifications at all. I recently got a blackberry enabled my email and facebook. My email works fine but I get ALL my facebook notifications and it’s annoying. Is there anyway to disable this?

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  57. Vultre9 says:

    Some people who I’ve never interacted with via Facebook show up on the friends online display on chat, while people who have written on my wall don’t always show up there. How does Facebook decide?

  58. Jason M says:

    Why do some Facebook friends appear more often on your Facebook Profile sidebar. Is there a known reason why some friends picture will show up more than others in the facebook sidebar?
    Because like I have a famous celebrity always pop up on my sidebar. When I never go to their profile. So is it like they’re viewing my Facebook a lot?
    Or how does it work?

  59. Hayden says:

    I know at one point Facebook stored all of your phone contacts, but I can’t figure out how to access them since they changed Facebook (again!). I have some people stored in my phone who I want to look up by their phone number to see if they’re on Facebook. Thanks in advance!

  60. ScRSC says:

    I have a problem with Facebook, and no none of you can help because it is an issue about the features on my Facebook account, and for some reason all my friends have them but mine account doesn’t.

    So what is the email I would email Facebook, and they would reply, and try to help me out?

    Thanks!

  61. Disrae says:

    How do you make it like cool looking like myspace??

  62. RxP DarkBox says:

    I already got twitter to connect with facebook so that whatever I tweet on facebook, it shows up on facebook. However, my retweets doesn’t show up on facebook. How do I get it to do that?
    Oops I mean, whatever I put on twitter, it shows up on facebook.

  63. have faith says:

    For some facebook is a formidable place of exchange of the ideas, for others facebook is a threaten for their private life. What is your position ? Think that the Internet make your life in dander ?

  64. Praveen says:

    Is it just my computer or is Facebook messed up tonight? My computer lets me log on put then when I get to the main page everything is messed up and I cant see the posts by other people…? When I got on Facebook from my phone, everything worked but it was in a different format? What’s up?? Thanks :]

  65. stephen m says:

    I wrote a new LiveJournal blog post about 20 minutes ago, and have Facebook set up to import my blog posts. It’s already imported all my old ones; how long does it take for Facebook to check for new blog posts, and to import them to my Facebook notes?

  66. Goe122 says:

    How does it match the contacts in your phone with your friends on facebook? Some of my friends pics showed up in my contacts but others did not. So does it match phone numbers, names, or email? What about if the person has downloaded facebook on the blackberry but does not have their phone number listed on facebook? Will it pick them up then if you do not have their entire name listed on contacts list? Thanks to anyone who can help me answer these questions!

  67. Dana G says:

    I want to open a facebook account and I know that people will see that I am new to facebook. Can i stop facebook saying that I am new. If I can do that can u please tell me how to.
    Thank you for ur help.

  68. Lucas H says:

    I know at one point Facebook stored all of your phone contacts, but I can’t figure out how to access them since they changed Facebook (again!). I have some people stored in my phone who I want to look up by their phone number to see if they’re on Facebook. Thanks in advance!

  69. Eric says:

    I know that Facebook got a new layout for the profile pages. How do you change it so I have the new layout?

  70. JackReynolds says:

    I troll Facebook political pages and I am constantly getting reported to death. I need more alts.
    @ abra: I know that but there are ways around that. You can buy drop accounts that are varified but I don’t want to pay $1 to $3 an account. I heard there are account generators.

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