Facebook asks business: Can’t we be friends? - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

PALO ALTO — For every organization or business trying to ban or limit the use of social media, Facebook Inc. has a message: We want to friend you. And friends help each other out.

That’s the word the Palo Alto-based social media pioneer sent out Aug. 18 following an announcement from the Southeastern Conference that it would ban fans from using Twitter, updating Facebook or posting photos or video to Flickr during its college sports events...