1) How do I delete/remove/hide my bigsight.org page, which was an unwelcome surprise when I googled my own name?

2) On Aug 20, I received a marketing email from your company. I have never communicated with bigsight.org in any way prior to this. As far as I know, a business must have had a relationship with customers (such as a purchase or an instance of mutual communication) at some point during the previous 18 months, otherwise they may not send any form of direct marketing. What gives your company the legal right to market directly to me via email?

3) When I googled my name and saw the bigsight.org profile that had been constructed for me, I didn’t think it was cool or handy – rather my immediate reaction was to assume that my privacy had been invaded in some way. Although it seems that your organization appears to be operating within the boundaries of the law, this makes me feel alarmed and used – not empowered. Coupled with the fact that there is no “opt out” or “cancel this account” option on your site, I currently have a very negative image of your company as one that forces its service upon people, much like I do when I receive spam email. Judging by my own reaction, I can guess that there will be many more like me, and I have a feeling that there is a lot of overlap between the “hip early adopter crowd who invite friends to join social networks” you may be targeting and the “effusive and reactionary netroots privacy guardian” type crowd. Do you plan any sort of damage control to address such concerns and potential damage to your brand image?

Thanks,

NAF

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1. This in no way even comes close to breaking any rules on FB. I’ll say again that if more people would sit down and read the Platform documentation that they’d quickly realize that they can use FB (and its data) to do many more things than one would expect.

2. Dave re: Zoominfo. I wish them the best but they are a dinosaur and the results their searches provide are more than not useless. And the 1,000 users simply means we just came out of beta. Have you signed up yet? It’d be a great way to promote your blog

3. Scott re: Spock. I actually had high expectations for Spock and initially thought that their hybrid strategy of aggregation and internal content build made sense, but I’m not sure they’ll win in the end. What we have are complete profiles that contain great information and link people across meaningful entities (schools, companies, etc.). Our model will take much longer to take to scale, but once it gets there, it should be rock solid.

Let me know if anyone has any more questions.
Dan