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Facebook Adds Ads To News Feed
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article at ZDNet: "As expected, Facebook has started displaying ads in users' News Feeds. You may not be seeing them yet as the company is rolling them out gradually, like it does for all its changes. ... Last month, a Facebook spokesperson said the company hoped to 'show people no more than one Sponsored Story in their News Feeds per day.' This is no longer the case, as Facebook now says you may see more Featured stories 'if you visit your News Feed a lot.'"
Yeah, this seems reasonable, particularly if you know now that "Liking" a company's page will get their marketing served to you.
If someone doesn't like this, all they have to do is stop liking commercial organisation's web pages.
I don't, however, think that the one sponsored article per day limit will last very long. Facebook has a long and established track record for continually breaking self-imposed limits and boundaries.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
Negative Ghost Rider, this is the "me" generation.
Everyone in the world needs to know about "me" all the time. What im doing, where im going, what im buying, what im watching, etc.
Dang. Read the article more closely, and you're right. Looks like Facebook is giving commercial pages the ability to repost friends' activity to your feed in case you missed it the first time the friend liked (or did whatever else with) thier page.
This does not look good. While I personally keep my "liked" pages to a bare minimum, I have lots of family and friends that are overly promiscuous with their clicks. I don't want to block everything from those people, but I don't want to be constantly barraged with posts from companies they've liked either.
Suppose this would be a good time to remind all the friends and family that Google+ is still available and only half as evil...