But whilst searching for an appropriate iPhone picture I stumbled across the picture at the ass of the post. Now this stopped in my blogging tracks and made me do this instead.

I decided about three weeks ago to jump on the iPhone band wagon. I was the cost. They are much cheaper now and alot more efficient.

Anyway I decided to get some good apps that would allow me to do posts on my phone when I am not in the reach of my Mac. So this posts is from my phone and the next image at the bottom is too.

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.

Why?

Well the company that I work for have decided that this SEO blog is good enough to be seen more as a guide and resource. I have therefore decided that I am going to start concentrating more on job related posts.

I bought a domain for my father a number of months ago but he decided that the blogging life was not for him. I therefore have decided to use this domain to my benefit. I will blogging on there about general stuff out side of work.

I will however be trying to link these two sites so that there is still a bit of fun within this blog as well.

If you want to read more comedy then see,

http://www.dave-stopher.co.uk

Ah and by the way i have not styled this blog yet so dont think that i am being boring with it. I just have not found a theme i like.

I cannot wait. Think I want to come in a caravan next time though….

Pictures are going on Flickr and Facebook by tomorrow

Me thinks I will be ok though.

Thinking about throwing up mid zip.

I did put sun cream on and I was very cautious about how much to put on but still I am sun burn.

Praise the lord that it is cloudy today as I am in agony. The other issue I have is to try and relieve the pain by getting a cold shower but the only temperature they have is hot. Which makes it appear that my skin is on fire on the backs of my legs.

Dame you milk bottle White. Anyway we are heading off to a water park today that should ease some of my pain I think.

Anyone got a remedy that will get rid of sun burn????

We are at present down the beach and I am tanning along nicely. When I say tanning along nicely I mean as in going from milk bottle White to red.

Anyway at 3.45am the car was packed and we set off to meet gaz philippa and ste. To be honest it was that early that not even the traffic signals had been turned on yet.

Anyway quick journey to gaz and philippas and then we were off on the five and a hour drive to Paignton in devon. The drive down was the easiest one I think I have ever done as there was nothing On the road.

We have been down the beach for the last hour after putting the tents up. The weather is tremendous and I think that this will be brilliant holiday.

Anyway question for you?

Why the hell would you take a tent to the beach. Ok yes it is an idea but the amount of time it took them to put together. It’s not worth the hassle.

It was like watching the chuckle brothers put it together.

Last week I brought me dad down for a week with his two cats. The cats had to stay at seo rocks house as my missus is elurgic to cats.

Well yoda the bugger of the two got out and vanished for 8 days without a trace. We have looked a few times but sign of her.

So last night we created posters to put in local newsagents. This evening I was going to go round but them all and hand in posters.

BUT

Today as though she had not gone missing she was found half asleep in the living room on her normal perch.

Well who cares anyway. She has returned safe and sound.

If you search for a global brand such as for example Blackberry or Apple then you will see some slightly different results appear. These results now show the USA SERPS for the bigger brands which is is a bit strange as you would think that after all the geo targeting fuss that has been created then google would not on purpose place US results in UK SERP’s.

Here is a video that Matt Cutts has created to explain why this happens and this is really good to explain the SERPS appearance.

This is brought me to think of something else. Google maps is back in the SERP’s with anger over the last few weeks. It was about 9 months ago when Google Local was not accepting entries and Google appeared to be fazing google maps out of the SERP’s altogether but they seems to be bringing this back into play again.

I am going to have investigate this me thinks.

Firstly go to Socialoomph -https://www.socialoomph.com/

Once here then you have to register.

You will then be asked to fill in all your details on the next page.

After completing this you will then be sent a email to confirm your registration. Check your emails and confirm the registration email.

Once completed you will be taken to the login screen. Once logged in you will be presented with this screen,

In the Social Accounts click on the ‘add a new twitter account’. This will give you the following screen,

Click ‘Authorize Access’ then you be presented with the following screen

Fill in your Username and Pasword then clcik allow. This will then take you back to SocialOomph site, to this screen

Fill in the box highlighted above and then save this and you are all set. You can direct message all new followers.

This is the quick guide to achieve Direct Messaging when you gain followers.