Facebook API Hack - How to use this to your advantange
Ok this is great! A site builder has used the Facebook API (which gives full access to all Facebook data to API users, whether your data is blocked or not...) and slapped it onto a site. Search recent statuses, no matter what your privacy setting...
We’ve tried to find old statuses with no luck , we think the search system is a bit ropey (or it only find the last status you have added). Still, everyone is in there.
We suspect it won’t be there too long, (domain was only registered on the 14th May 2010) but we reckon this may have future implications on the Facebook API and the people who are allowed to use it...
Here is the original article, and a few examples of the potential disaster this can cause for individuals.
http://www.bitterwallet.com/why-your-life-is-an-open-book-on-facebook/29978
However, here is the nice thing for us (if i were sneakily minded!) that we can search for a keyword in someones status, for example if we type in ‘Antivirus’ into openbook and find out who has got problems with their antivirus on their PC. We can then click on their profile and message them directly with a message saying something like ‘We’ve heard you were having trouble with your antivirus...try this out it works really well...some antivirus soluion.com‘ which we could easily turn into a Tiny URL and put an affiliate link.
What does that mean? Free traffic to target people with problems that you can hide affiliate links in. Agreed, it may be a time consuming way to make affiliate earnings, but if you were targeting a high end product it wouldn't be long before you started seeing the money come in!
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