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Facebook Bans Google+ Ads
Barbara, not Barbie writes "Not content with making it hard for people to export their Facebook contacts to Google+, Facebook has now banned all ads from app developer Michael Lee Johnson, who ran an ad saying 'Add Michael to Google+.' Facebook sent him the following message: 'Your account has been disabled. All of your adverts have been stopped and should not be run again on the site under any circumstances. Generally, we disable an account if too many of its adverts violate our Terms of Use or Advertising guidelines. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with the specific violations that have been deemed abusive. Please review our Terms of Use and Advertising guidelines if you have any further questions.'"
Really? Because almost everyone I know on both Google+ and Facebook has pretty much already stopped using Google+ and gone back to using Facebook exclusively. It's not that Google+ isn't pretty. It's not even a critical mass thing. it's that it just does a hell of a lot less than Facebook. Sure it may be more private by default but in exchange for everything Facebook offers, given that one can also do a hell of a lot to make a Facebook profile private... (more in some ways than with a Google+ account)... it's just not worth the trade off for most people.