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Facebook’s PR Becomes More Aggressive

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Earlier this week buzz started spreading immediately that Facebook was making it extremely difficult for users to delete their accounts. Within 24 hours there was an immediate turnaround in their policy and Facebook made it possible for users to delete their account. It appears with more cash in h ... Continue reading »

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  • I feel this is not aggressive however it makes a good headline. Aggressive would suggest that any time someone dare mentions their name in a negative fashion that they go in guns blazing, cease and desist orders at the ready etc.

    However what is actually occurring is that they have woken up (well, employed more people) to handle / join in with the conversations that are taking place online and offline about their product.

    Aggressive? No
    Sound Business practice? Most definitely

    Even before the money came pouring in I have found that unlike many organisation I purchase products from the Facebook Customer Care Team respond quickly via email to questions that arise about the Product. I hope they keep this going as well as investing more money on the PR side. I have a view which is that Customer Service supports the Marketing / PR that takes place.

    Mike Ashworth
    Business Coaching and Consultancy
    Brighton and Hove, Sussex, UK
  • Have to agree with Mike, this isn't 'aggressive' PR, it's 'responsive' PR. It is an attention grabbing adjective to stick into the title of you post but a little bit misleading perhaps? Of course they could playing heavy behind the scenes with you Nick but that isn't the subject here :-)

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