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Your Face Will Soon Be In Facebook Ads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-ad-where dept.

jfruhlinger writes "If you're planning on checking into Starbucks using Facebook Places, your friends may soon see your profile picture in a Facebook ad for Starbucks — and, it goes without saying, you won't be paid a dime. You can't opt out, unless, as Dan Tynan puts it, "studiously avoid clicking "Like" or checking into any place that has a six- or seven-figure ad budget." The ad will also include whatever text you use in your checkin, so Tynan suggests some judicious pranksterism ("Just checked into the Starbucks around the corner and this doppio mocha latte tastes like goat urine")."

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  1. Re:Hmmm by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or you use a copyrighted image for fb that you don't own the copyright to (and thus couldn't have implictly given to Facebook), wait untill the lawsuits start! I think this idea won't get too far.

  2. Re:Hmmm by kenrblan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I like this idea. Hilarity would definitely ensue when the Target logo is shown on a Wal-Mart ad, Lowe's in Home Depot, etc. Once company could get free advertising on the competitor's dime!

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  3. Re:And get a personal website, under your own cont by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    new slogans?

    Facebook: because you're too dumb to own a website and manage rss feeds.

    Twitter: because you're too dumb to get into an irc channel.

    web2.0: because you're too dumb to notice that internet should be made of protocols not sites.

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