LoL Facebookers

[sinSStr]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Facebook-to-let-advertisers-apf-1912961417.html?x=0

[Biff Tannen]

TL;DR


Facebook/Myspace/twitter in the news is fucking stupid, but that's where our society is headed. so whatever.

[Notch]

Since you couldn't figure it out...

Facebook to let advertisers republish users' check-ins as 'sponsored stories'

Currently there is no way for users to decline this feature.

Facebook says this lets advertisers promote word-of-mouth recommendations that people already made on the site. They play up things people do on the site that might get lost in the mass of links, photos, status updates and other content users share on the world's largest social network.

The new, promoted posts would keep the same privacy setting that the original posting had. So if you limit your check-ins to a specific group of friends, only these same friends would see the "Sponsored Story" version later.

The promoted content will appear on the right side of users' home pages, not in their main news feed. That's where regular ads, friend requests and other content are located.

Involving users in advertisements without their consent has been a thorny issue for Facebook. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said in this case the company is making money off a person's name or likeness without their consent. He calls it "subtle and misleading" and says users should object.

Twitter already offers advertisers something similar, called "promoted tweets." These are Twitter posts paid for by advertisers to show up in search results and on top of popular topic lists on the site. But while Twitter's ads are written by the companies that pay for them, Facebook's sponsored stories are created by users.

Both represent an effort to make advertisements more akin to what people are already experiencing on the site instead of putting up virtual billboards that users might ignore or find tacky

[Turbohwagon]

Since you couldn't figure it out...

Don't be so hard on him, you have to be nice to those LTx folks, they are not as fast as the rest of us.

[The Russinator]

People should get over it. If you choose to put something on the internet you should expect other people will try to make money off of it. If you dont like it you have the choice not to put anything up. This is not new news.

[Punisher]

How bout the Android phone we all love to have? Marketing tool in your pocket. Painted ourselves into a corner with that one too.

[Biff Tannen]

OMG WHY ARE THERE SO MANY COMMERCIALS ON YOUTUBE, IF I WANT TO WATCH COMMERCIALS I'LL WATCH TV.

[specialk922]

So if I'm friends with Cosmo, for example, and I comment "I tried that new thing in this month's Cosmo and fractured by boyfriend's penis", they can use that to sell more magazines?

[Punisher]

Its kind of like spam email but personalized.

[Notch]

Don't be so hard on him, you have to be nice to those LTx folks, they are not as fast as the rest of us.

But the LTx defined the gay 90's.

[Scotty07]

BFD.

[sinSStr]

Since you couldn't figure it out...

You're absolutely right. I have NO idea how to "copy" and "paste" articles. Furthermore, you had no reason........................oh yeah, you have a Facebook so you did have a reason to click that link.

[SVT5LITER]

facebook is gay.

[Newbomb Turk]

I joined TCS facebook. God help me.

[68GTO]

facebook. Replacing normal human interactions for obsessed people everywhere...