Ethics in Social Media Marketing

A hot topic issue in today's social media presence is the issue of ethics. Social media nowadays has been deemed unethical when it comes to privacy settings, advertising campaigns, and stalking of unwanted friends. In an article titled "3 Steps to Ethical Social Media Marketing" it goes through the steps a user of these sites can take to defend themselves against unethical social media sites. The first step is to disclose any advertising product samples or incentives, step two is to disclose any relationship marketers and third is to disclose all relationships with people you don't know. I think these three things are important, but there are some other things I think this article is missing. Obviously setting your privacy settings to protect yourself is a no brainer and will help shield you from people you don't know or don't want on your page. Reporting unwanted users is always a good idea when it comes to unwanted stalkers. So there are other ways to fight unethical social media sites and those need to be addressed as well. Ethics is important and if people care about their privacy and ethics in today's internet connections, then some might even leave these sites to be secure and safe.

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/3-steps-to-ethical-social-media-marketing/