Since they cannot monitor all their members actions personally, your actions are monitored by technology, and it’s not perfect. You can easily do something that triggers their system to deactivate your profile, which in turn leaves any groups you started open to be taken over by the next person that visits the group.

Yes, a competitor could take over your group.

This is not well known among business people yet, but if facebook ever expects to be a serious player with business, their system needs to be fixed.

I’d heard about the Kindle thing with Amazon, and although I had heard about the Facebook issue, I don’t use it.

Now that I have read this, I wish all consumers also had a bunch of lawyers at their disposal!

Consumers aren’t necessarily dumb, they just can’t devote the time to decipher what the army of lawyers have concocted. And even that would assume they were properly informed about it.

Argh!

Unless you manage to live a self-sufficient lifestyle on a farm somewhere.

Just because we might be on the business side of retail in our professional lives doesn’t free us from our roles as consumers, too.