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Instant Messenger or Instant Advertiser?

Posted by timothy on from the insidious-synthetic-friends dept.

Shadow2097 writes: "ABC News is running this moderately disturbing story about a new, highly targeted form of advertising. Two companies, SmarterChild.com and ActiveBuddy.com have teamed up to deliver interactive Instant Messenger bots that talk to children and deliver ever-so-subtle ads for various products. Just when you think market saturation has reached the limit, leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is."

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  1. Slashmob strikes again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Corporations evil!
    Kids good!
    Properly disseminate GNU/Stallmanist thought!
    </whiny voice>

    1. Re:Slashmob strikes again... by Guppy06 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Fire bad!
      FIRE BAD!!

    2. Re:Slashmob strikes again... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      BEER GOOD!

      Napster Bad!

      --
      "We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
  2. whoopee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i could care less about ads, i just wish they would release an OS X version of AIM that didn't fucking suck.

  3. Re:A rather disturbing thought on what might be ne by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geez, maybe I shouldn't even be writing this, lest some sick fsck get ideas.

    Oh, like you?

    -----
    CmdrTaco

  4. Re:A rather disturbing thought on what might be ne by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poor form Sir, poor form indeed.

  5. Re:How is this anything new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Hey atleast Drug Dealers have morals and ethics!

  6. It's pretty clever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SmarterChild (9:45:21 PM): Great, I'll add you to my e-mail list if you type your e-mail address right now.

    (9:45:29 PM): fuck@yourself.com

    SmarterChild (9:45:30 PM): I don't think that's really your e-mail address. Thanks anyway.

    1. Re:It's pretty clever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      me: Are you spying on children to make a profit?
      SmarterChild: What do you think? Am I?
      me: I think you are!
      SmarterChild: Oh yeah?
      me: YEah!
      SmarterChild: Huh.
      me: Well?
      SmarterChild: Well well well.
      me: Are you or arn't you?
      SmarterChild: Maybe, maybe not. You know how it is.
      me: No I don't think I do
      SmarterChild: You don't?
      me: no
      SmarterChild: OK, whatever.
      me: Are you blowing me off
      SmarterChild: Blowing you off? I dunno.
      me: I think you are
      SmarterChild: Yeah. I guess. Me are!

  7. Re:The bots cannot be blocked. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first off bitch, i aint no fucking jew, second of all, rap sucks and niggers should be lynched... and 3rd, whats wrong with shit eating and pot smoking?