Facebook Adding Advertisements to Personal News Feeds

Absimilliard

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Having my precious time-wasting interrupted by advertising only generates hate for that product... I can't believe the sponsors think it's a good idea...
 

wooty

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Well, I guess its time to cancel my account then. Sick of this web 2.0 and it choking the fuck out of my screen with endless ads.
 

FamoFunk

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Sporky111 said:
Mark Zuckerberg's house is probably made of lightbulbs, and he really does need the extra money to keep them on.

That being said, I'm not a bit surprised. Zuckerberg seems to have a vendetta against privacy, and it's going to be the end of him and his site if he keeps abusing his users like this. He got away with it for a long time because there was no competition, but now he's going to have to really think about how many users he's willing to chase away for more adspace now that G+ is around.
As much as I like it, I don't think G+ will ever get to the level Facebook has, I've been on G+ since the beta/trial/before launch time, and once it was open to the public half of people I knew signed up, never to go back on, and half didn't ever both because of FB.
I kinda think Mark and his little crew know this, and that's why all these new advertisements are coming to Facebook.

I never noticed the old ad's before they disappeared, and I'm not really bothered about this, I can handle one or two adverts in-between what my friends are up to. I guess I'll only be concerned when it becomes more ads than actual feed. We shall see come the next few weeks.
 

knhirt

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This changes nothing, Zuckerberg.

Edit: I just realized my post broke a rule about advocating something terrible. Disregard this!


On topic: This idea is pretty terrible. I'll probably use Facebook even less, now. Oh well. Nothing much lost there.
 

LobsterFeng

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I just got rid of a virus that did exactly what they're about to do now. The ironic part is that Facebook was the one that alerted me of the virus.
 

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I am already annoyed that I have to "Allow Access" to everything I click on in Facebook, I won't look at ads. I'll drop the site like a bad habit if a certain add-on doesn't work.
 

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I find it funny people are in an uproar over this. Aside from Facebook being a completely cesspool of terrible filth outlining the massive flaws of humanity, no one seemed to think it would eventually become an advertisement driven marketing money machine? They will keep jamming adds in until there is no space left just like every other site on the web. Then they will redesign it to fit more, and piss off a lot more users until the next terrible "social" site appears, and the process starts all over again. Then they will make a movie about that sites founder too.
 

viranimus

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YAAA.. Facebook is going to kill itself!

Seriously, the average individual will only tolerate a certain level of advertising before it revolts and tries to move on to something else.

So it seems it wont take 5 more years before people are joking about how they "cancelled their facebook" and how passe Facebook is now. Thing is... its a website that for the good of the net SHOULD die. Only problem is that with as many terrible precedents as Facebook set well never undo the damage that its responsible for.
 

The Rogue Wolf

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Mark Zuckerberg- fleecing monetizing those sheep customers like a boss. I mean, come on, he's literally called Facebook members "dumb f***s" for trusting him. Let's not pretend to be surprised by this latest twist of the knife.

Somebody remind me exactly what I'm missing out on by not being on Facebook?
 

Strazdas

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well you can always use <censored because of this forums idiotic rules>

This is nothing new, youtube already does that. well not to such intrusive extend as all your contacts get the message but every second video on youtube is "Advertisement based on your watch history". imo youtube gotten worse since it merged with google. microsoft isnt the only "buy and ruin (msn, skype)" monster out there.

there always were stupid people. nowdays we have a technology to attract stuppid people and make money on it. thus: crapple, fartbook, twatter.
And well people often say "oh its a fad it will fade". well you said the same about rap, techno, even rock/metal, snowboards, skaters and many more things that are prominent part of our culture. even computer gaming was called a "Fad that will fade" in its early days.

The Rogue Wolf said:
Somebody remind me exactly what I'm missing out on by not being on Facebook?
The ability to see the extent of human retardness. When i saw a friend using facebook i jsut stood there staring at the screen thinking how could world go that far down and how did i miss it.
 

Jack Rascal

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I really don't know why i still have a Facebook account. I signed up in its early days, when I lived outside my home country and wanted to stay in touch with friends. Well, that didn't really work and I still don't visit that site more than once in a couple of months. The email address I have saved there is my "spam" mail so I don't even receive the notifications to my normal email.

All I really do there is change the privacy settings every time I hear they have changed something. I really should just delete my account...

As for the news, nope, not too happy about the idea. Even though I only occasionally check my account, I think the idea is just horrid. Yes, it will start with one ad a day, but then it gets to two and eventually every second post is an ad (sorry, "story"). Why would they say no to money? And I am not a fan of anything that remembers your browsing history or spews ad's to my friends based on what I like.
 

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FamoFunk said:
As much as I like it, I don't think G+ will ever get to the level Facebook has
I'm not much more of a fan of Google than I am of Facebook, but it's worth mentioning that they said the same thing about Facebook compared to MySpace.
 

michael87cn

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Never saw a need for myspace, never saw a need for facebook. Always thought it was silly to put pictures of yourself online without reason. I can see if you were actually advertising yourself or used it for something other than "WHEEE! CHECK OUT MY PHOTO ALBUM! YAY!"

Just store pictures of yourself on your phone or something, then share them with your friends. *shrug*

Guess this doesn't affect me ^.^