nytimes.com— Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product.
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In other words, they became a yub.com clone... a few years after the fact.Love em or hate em... buy.com did this years ago with their "social network" yub.
Facebook has all the money in the world and could sell for boatloads whenever it wanted to. However, they seem to forget that the reason why it ever got so big was because it was better than myspace...it wasn't ugly, and didnt have a bazillion spammers and ads everywhere. I think that they need to realize that in order to stay alive and in good shape, that they shouldn't allways be thinking about making more and more money. Because thinking that way will be the end for facebook.
I think that this is a horrible idea if Facebook goes through with this. I do not want to be targeted by the information that I have placed on my profile or because of the people that I am friends with. Facebook at one time was strictly meant for college students to keep in touch with each other but more and more high schools are gaining access. Now information that you purchase can be linked to your “news feed” displaying to your friends the products that you just purchased. There should be a degree of privacy on Facebook from those who you want to see your information and those that you do not. At one point, that was offered but it is becoming more apparent that having a Facebook profile is a way for Facebook to exploit me for more money.
I'm with you - never joined either. I prefer 1-on-1 communication with the friends and family that I care about - it's so much more personal than Facebook. Plus I'd rather not regurgitate all the mundane details of my life online, or read about someone else's.
raccetturaNov 7, 2007
In other words, they became a yub.com clone... a few years after the fact.Love em or hate em... buy.com did this years ago with their "social network" yub.
appetiteNov 7, 2007
nice. haha.
my8birdNov 7, 2007
Couldn't already do this with a group page?
chuqauNov 8, 2007
If you think Product X is s**tty and Product Y is crappy then WTF would you endorse them?
callsignviper17Nov 9, 2007
Facebook has all the money in the world and could sell for boatloads whenever it wanted to. However, they seem to forget that the reason why it ever got so big was because it was better than myspace...it wasn't ugly, and didnt have a bazillion spammers and ads everywhere. I think that they need to realize that in order to stay alive and in good shape, that they shouldn't allways be thinking about making more and more money. Because thinking that way will be the end for facebook.
gbak39Dec 4, 2007
I think that this is a horrible idea if Facebook goes through with this. I do not want to be targeted by the information that I have placed on my profile or because of the people that I am friends with. Facebook at one time was strictly meant for college students to keep in touch with each other but more and more high schools are gaining access. Now information that you purchase can be linked to your “news feed” displaying to your friends the products that you just purchased. There should be a degree of privacy on Facebook from those who you want to see your information and those that you do not. At one point, that was offered but it is becoming more apparent that having a Facebook profile is a way for Facebook to exploit me for more money.
foofoobeeMar 26, 2009
I'm with you - never joined either. I prefer 1-on-1 communication with the friends and family that I care about - it's so much more personal than Facebook. Plus I'd rather not regurgitate all the mundane details of my life online, or read about someone else's.