Facebook Frolics 1
Your “news feed” is for sale:
These ads, designed to join the normal streams on members’ news feeds and status updates, are already generating about $1 million per day in revenue in limited testing.
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It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.
Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.
I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.
Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).
I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.
July 29, 2012 at 5:22 pm
I’ve seen a few creep into my feed. When I do I set the Facebook control in the hidden tab to never show me anything fom the group, agency or person again. If enough people could be encouraged to do that it would degrade the value of Facebook further. Businesses and people should be brought to the understanding that buying to contaminate a person’s feed with ads and promotions thinly disguised as “stories” is odious. Feeds are already contaminated by enough picture spammers and other nuisances looking for pet audiences.