Re:Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?
by socratees on Monday June 29, 2009 @09:59AM
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I doubt the model of online advertisement as the model of the future. Also, I have not clicked on any facebook ads, linkedin ads, or ads on google mail as long as i can remember. The only time i click the ads is when I'm actively searching for a product on Google.
Do you click on ads just for the sake of it?
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I've watched over a thousand truck ads on tv and never considering buying one. That doesn't mean the ads don't work.
Be wary of generalizing from a sample size of 1, or from peculiar audiences, such as those on hacker / startup-oriented social news sites.
I, for one, have observed surprisingly compulsive reactions to advertising in some of the people around me, things I'd never do just on principle of being bidden by an ad. You'd be surprised.