Re:Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
by 082349872349872 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:22PM
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For me:
1) not true. (I am currently happy to get ads for condos in St. Petersburg and banks in Cyprus, as I hope it shows Google has very little idea of who I really am, or at least just that I'm an unsought demographic?)
2) not true at all, compared to the tracking available from broadcast and free periodical advertising, which was how local businesses used to do it: in local media.
3) People genuinely find products they like all the time without ads, also.
4) Whole categories of businesses were introduced before FB ads as well. I know someone who got rich on selling copycat Uzi sealing rings as a teen fad, and that was before AOL and Google, let alone FB.
You probably don't care about convincing me, but if you wished to, you'd have to somehow demonstrate that FB provides a great deal of additional value in return for all the additional information they collect.
1) not true. (I am currently happy to get ads for condos in St. Petersburg and banks in Cyprus, as I hope it shows Google has very little idea of who I really am, or at least just that I'm an unsought demographic?)
2) not true at all, compared to the tracking available from broadcast and free periodical advertising, which was how local businesses used to do it: in local media.
3) People genuinely find products they like all the time without ads, also.
4) Whole categories of businesses were introduced before FB ads as well. I know someone who got rich on selling copycat Uzi sealing rings as a teen fad, and that was before AOL and Google, let alone FB.
You probably don't care about convincing me, but if you wished to, you'd have to somehow demonstrate that FB provides a great deal of additional value in return for all the additional information they collect.