{"id":71667,"date":"2010-06-21T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/customerthink.com\/is_encouraging_businesses_to_use_social_media_unethical\/"},"modified":"2010-06-21T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:19:00","slug":"is_encouraging_businesses_to_use_social_media_unethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/is_encouraging_businesses_to_use_social_media_unethical\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Encouraging Businesses To Use Social Media Unethical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t look anywhere without hearing someone giving advice to business about how important it is for them to get on the social media train. What&#8217;s scary is that there is very little good evidence that it will be profitable for most businesses, while there is a fair amount of indirect information to tell us that businesses get on the train, then jump off once they realize it&#8217;s a dry hole.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s a goofy question. Are the people who are pushing and promoting social media to businesses as a means to make money, operating unethically? Taking this a bit into aliceinwonderland, does some of what&#8217;s said about social media border on misrepresentation and become criminal and fraudulent?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that what we call it when people make false claims?<\/p>\n<p>Comment or we will report you for fraud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t look anywhere without hearing someone giving advice to business about how important it is for them to get on the social media train. What&#8217;s scary is that there is very little good evidence that it will be profitable for most businesses, while there is a fair amount of indirect information to tell us [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":7095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}