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Isn’t it annoying to see a crap advertisement of some so called company promising you “study in UK, USA and Australia” on the top of your favorite online community’s description? If that’s not making you aggravated than how weird its sounds when you get to know somebody sold you without your knowledge as a “virtual friend” to someone else for few hundred of dollars?
When millions of people in the world gather at same place and start many things together than unknowingly they create a buzz! A buzz! With a hell lot of information, ideas, and knowledge which is shared on such websites. That’s what we call social networking today and nowadays it’s a hot business too, as marketing has changed itself from its traditional face and has turned towards the latest trend which is also known as social media marketing. Online communities, groups and people with thousands of friends in his/her network are best place and best suitable people to do online marketing and advertising. Some do it in right way and some wrong. Whatever way they go, the innocent users always become victims of cheap marketing tactics on many social networking sites. I am focusing this issue regarding such business going on in Facebook and Orkut social networks.
Facebook.com
Business: Most bizarre among such “black” SN (Social Networking) business is a company named USocial who is selling bunch of facebook friends to their respected clients in few hundred of dollars.
Victims: Facebook Users
How it works? A client asks for his requirement according to the nature of his profession. Say an automobile company who want to promote its products through SN like facebook will approach such marketing companies with their need of getting ready made 1000 friends on facebook, the company will make an account with facebook and manually add people related to automobile industry like automobile enthusiasts, motorists, photographers, writers and reviewers etc with the help of facebook search. Later they will sell those added friends to their client by giving account details and password. By this, without an effort a client will get people added in his network for $200 to $700.
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Orkut.com
Business: There are many orkut communities with large number of users with high rate of activities in community forums which are making money with online marketers who find online communities cheap and effective than paying Google for its ad-word program.
Victims: Orkut users
How it works? The marketing companies analyze potential groups and member’s activities related to their product to sell and then they approach the community owner and offer him to get their advertisement on top of community description. For a community owner it’s an easy way to earn some real money while having fun on orkut. But for unknown users it’s a bothersome fixation which they have to tolerate.
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Over view: The world of social networking is getting bigger every day, we don’t know how much an individual on social networking is safe from becoming a victim of such unethical $ hungry creatures, but such issues should be discussed openly on wider platform. For most of us, how you earn is a secondary question but sometimes it’s important to think upon that. Relations are always higher than money.
“Success of Social Networking is lying inside Strong Relations, Not a Big “fake” Network”.
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