The only thing I fault Facebook with is how hard they make it for users to opt out of things. It always ends up as your great aunt doing a repost of a status that says “YOUR PRIVACY IS AT RISK! GO HERE > HERE AND HERE THEN UNCHECK THIS AND THEN YOU WILL BE SAFE”
We are not on Facebook.
However, we are in process of a commercial project that we think may need social media marketing. Is it possible to have a commercial Facebook page for a product that still safeguards privacy? We will have to place our names and certifications/credentials out there for this project, so the simple act of marketing becomes marketing ourselves. We will also have a website for the project, so I suppose the combination will end any privacy we still may have? Can you have the little *share this* icon on a website without personally engaging in Twitter, Digg, et al? I really draw the line at Twitter.
We will NOT have any political or even vaguely ideological information on the website. With another website for another product and a Paypal account, plus some eBay sales, I assume we have little privacy left, anyway?
I have asked a couple of savvy friends, both of whom have a commercial page, but they seem vague on this question. One, however, is fairly certain her business has been targeted for her conservative activism, but she can’t really prove it.