Re:How Facebook Is Selling Your Timeline to Advertisers
by pork on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:43AM
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Can't we dispense with the inflammatory and misleading headlines, PLEASE? As before, FB is selling space on your timeline, not the contents of it. This is comparable to the targeted ads Hotmail (if I recall) used to insert into outgoing emails. I don't like it, just as I didn't like ads in my email, but it's a far cry from what the headline implies.
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Re:How Facebook Is Selling Your Timeline to Advertisers
by cienrak on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:53AM
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The headline isn't misleading. The piece is literally about how Facebook is pitching this big change to marketers.
Re:How Facebook Is Selling Your Timeline to Advertisers
by SoftwareMaven on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:54AM
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According to TFA, the ordering of your timeline is influenced by how much people pay Facebook. Sounds like selling my timeline to me.
Re:How Facebook Is Selling Your Timeline to Advertisers
by orijing on Friday December 23, 2011 @11:29PM
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If that were true, the sponsored content would be labeled. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388106