Dave Stopher SEO

SEO Focus, Top Notch SEO and myself completed a blog post On the just search site about facebook and the last couple of years that they have had.

The blog post goes on about what exactly happened privacy wise for facebook. What they had to do to counter act the privacy issue, what others have done to follow suit and finally what I think facebook have done to get back in the good books when it comes to users.

With the blog post we mainly concentrate on the privacy issue and not other factors that facebook have done to combat the bad press that facebook have seen.

Well what I want to do in this blog post is go a little deep into The panic button, users who have closed their accounts and finally the facebook film that is due out in October 2010.

The PANIC button

After a negotiation with the government lately Facebook decided that they would adapt a panic button that would go on the website so that if anyone felt threatened they could press this button and this would alert Facebook and Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) for an investigation. obviously if this is a good idea but why at the start the year (before the privacy kicked in) did Facebook say no and know they are very will to create a panic button?

Facebooks bad press must of had something to do with it for me. I really think that the bad press coverage that facebook has encountered over the last 8 months or so has contributed to there willingness to help out.

I mean dont get me wrong I think that this is a good idea for prevention of possible crimes. All I am saying that I personally think that if Facebook had not gone through the Privacy issues then they would have more say in the representation of the panic button and where it would have been placed.

Quit Facebook Campaign

After all the issues that had been caused with the privacy settings where you had to change 50 or so settings to prevent anyone from seeing private information there was a fan page created. This fan page was basically the rebellion against Facebook. A rebellion that could bring Facebook to its knees.

I only say this because the like of Matt Cutts and other big people in the internet industry closed there accounts with facebook. Yes to be honest I think that it was more that google wanted their important staff to turn there back on Facebook especially when they are looking at creating a competition in GOOGLE ME.

But some people would of read this and thought well if they are I think I should and so the Quit Facebook by the 31st May campaign got some press. However only about 20 thousand users accounts were closed in this time as Facebook gets one more step closer to 450 million user.

This is a brilliant example of how some juggernauts cannot be stopped.

Facebook movie

The social network or as it is being dubbed ’500 million friends’ is coming out in October of this year and I know people have said to me that this film will of been planned for ages but I beg to differ. This film has not had much press and has been very quite in the making. I also think that this is not only a money making exercise but is a Brand Reputation exercise as well.

I know the film is about the creation of Facebook but I also think that this comes at a very timely moment especially considering that Facebook have had some rough times over the last 6-9 months and through this the Facebook Brand will have taken a hit. This shows that even through all the rough waters that they have had they are still able to increase in size and demand.

Conclusion

Facebook were never ever in trouble but from these issues they have come out being a bigger and better brand.