I appreciate what you’re saying but I think that because I’m not paying facebook a fee, they don’t like it. There are hundreds of businesses all over facebook promoting themselves by encouraging you to visit their websites and to buy something in order to earn points to use on weird facebook games and applications. They are probably charged a fee for the right to do that – that is where the difference probably is. I haven’t paid facebook for the right to promote my business and therefore I feel I am scuppered! Whether they will activate my account is anyone’s guess. Telling me how many friends I can add and telling me to ’slow down’ because I’ve got too many friends is a pretty odd way to run a social networking site. I am not bothered too much about it but I do have a lot of genuine friends on there who will now be wondering where the hell I am!

It is a fine line, and this is why I suggest above that if you’re not sure, then get someone who does. Groups like “Poker Without Cards” for example are doing it successfully.

Gateway Communications back in the early 90’s lead the pack in “email marketing”. Two years later their efforts were labelled SPAM. But S. Astle who was the brains behind Gateway, adjusted his focus and continued to make sales through email.

Put another way, “A little knowledge can be dangerous”. And I want you to know, that I am in no way trying to dismiss what you are saying. What I am suggesting is find out how those who are succeeding at it, are doing it.

- The Iconoclast.