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Ask Slashdot: Facebook, Twitter For Business, Is It Worth the Privacy Trade-Off?
cayenne8 writes "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. However, I'm beginning to look into making money through various means on the side, one of them being photography/videography. With these mediums, being seen is critically important. Having a business facing site on Facebook/Google+ and even using Twitter can be great for self promotion, and can open up your business to a huge audience. If you were to open your FB and other social network accounts with business ONLY information, and keep your personal information (name, image, etc) off the Facebook account...will this keep your personal privacy still from them, or are their algorithms good enough to piece together who you are from the business only sites? Is the payoff worth the potential trade-off for generating potential customers for your business and guiding them to your primary website?"
chronoss chiron
real name nothing like that
email a strange gmail account
and ive never ever used my real name anywhere in the entire history ive been on the net
some arabs thought i was arab once and invited me to a site when i told em i was scottish well i got booted LOL
the rub is people could do this type a thing for business too. Think how holly molly the stripper makes a buck....that ain't her real name but its prolly registered as a business name and thus IT can make money....want privacy as much as you can thats about all i can offer other then the above.
fact is if they are tracking my email address then good for them track away if i stop using it and this name then what...
oh and one year i tried to many name syndrome and had 96 email accounts..WHAT you say well 10 meg form geocities per each...ROFL