Facebook, meet Bing

Bing, the "decision engine", has been struggling compared to its giant sized competitor Google. In order to increase its usage, they have decided to team up with Facebook. What all of this will mean for those of us on Facebook is increased search ability in terms of Bing and less privacy.

In my opinion, Facebook needs to take a step back in regards to partnering up with different companies. The fact that it has a connection with Bing now does not help the fact that I am not a fan of having all of my information accessible by the general public. Obviously there will be options to not have your information be out there, but the problems with this are those people that have not done the research to figure out that there information will be there in the first place! For the first few years that I had a Facebook, I had no idea that anyone could type in my name and I was the first person in the Google search.

Facebook is slowly becoming more and more intermingled with other companies, such as foursquare. If the company continues to let others buy into Facebook, then the people using Facebook are at risk privacy wise. I believe similar events occurred with Myspace. It became less safe and so the consumers went to Facebook. Facebook had a safe and secure customer base with a clean interface. It is slowly coming before cluttered, and the end of Facebook does not seem as far away as it once did.