Re:What you should learn from the man who lost $600,000 on F...
by hluska on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:46PM
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It's good that you could find me articles about fake Facebook accounts and how some dating websites contain fake profiles. But, I know both of those things already.
Instead, you made a claim that Facebook was a poor choice of medium because women aged 18-25 are walking away from the service in droves. You said they were walking away because:
But young women are really walking away these days because they find any picture of them on facebook is quickly harvested for use by some shady dating website. As one student expressed it to me, facebook has a "serious creep factor". So nobody should be surprised that a fashion mag lost money on facebook ads.
A statement like that needs some proof. If you have any, I would love to read it, but until then, I'll argue that Facebook has an immense amount of data and extremely fine-grained targeting options. Therefore, if you plan and monitor an intelligent campaign, it remains a decent advertising medium.
Instead, you made a claim that Facebook was a poor choice of medium because women aged 18-25 are walking away from the service in droves. You said they were walking away because:
But young women are really walking away these days because they find any picture of them on facebook is quickly harvested for use by some shady dating website. As one student expressed it to me, facebook has a "serious creep factor". So nobody should be surprised that a fashion mag lost money on facebook ads.
A statement like that needs some proof. If you have any, I would love to read it, but until then, I'll argue that Facebook has an immense amount of data and extremely fine-grained targeting options. Therefore, if you plan and monitor an intelligent campaign, it remains a decent advertising medium.