{"id":1586,"date":"2011-02-28T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2011-02-28T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:18:47","slug":"facebook-gives-up-on-social-media-and-goes-all-in-for-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/02\/28\/facebook-gives-up-on-social-media-and-goes-all-in-for-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook gives up on Social Media and goes all-in for marketing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TECH\/social.media\/02\/28\/facebook.like.button\/index.html?hpt=T2\">Facebook Like button takes over Share button &#8211; CNN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it should ultimately increase traffic to publishers&#8217; websites&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the money line.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of what FB says, FB is no longer about social ANYTHING, it&#8217;s all about the marketing.<\/p>\n<p>It should really be called Marketing Media, not Social Media. What we want is really far far less important than what advertisers and marketers want.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will start being very careful about what I &#8216;like&#8217;. I apologize in advance to all my actual friends. I used to use &#8216;like&#8217; as a way to make brief contact and to be supportive. Maybe I&#8217;ll just start sending little emails. Anybody have a quick-mail app for browsers?<\/p>\n<p>But WAIT, there&#8217;s MORE&#8230;.<br \/>\norder now and get TWICE as much junk.<br \/>\nAll for one LOW, LOW price<br \/>\n(your soul?)<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1586'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1586);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1586);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1586);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Facebook Like button takes over Share button &#8211; CNN.com. &#8220;it should ultimately increase traffic to publishers&#8217; websites&#8221; There&#8217;s the money line. In spite of what FB says, FB is no longer about social ANYTHING, it&#8217;s all about the marketing. It &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/02\/28\/facebook-gives-up-on-social-media-and-goes-all-in-for-marketing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,118],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-selling-out","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-pA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":734,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/05\/10\/heres-the-privacy-line-that-facebook-just-crossed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1586,"position":0},"title":"Here&#8217;s The Privacy Line That Facebook Just Crossed&#8230;","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's The Privacy Line That Facebook Just Crossed.... by Jeff Jarvis | May. 9, 2010, 9:06 AM Read more: http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-the-privacy-line-that-facebook-just-crossed-2010-5#ixzz0nY2fgT28 While I agree with Jeff Jarvis that FB has crossed a line by putting the stuff I offer to share with my FBFriends into the public space, I think the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1560,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/01\/27\/social-login-and-fb-celebrities\/","url_meta":{"origin":1586,"position":1},"title":"Social Login and FB Celebrities","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Facebook Launches Social Login & HTTPS To Protect Your Privacy. 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