Behold, Facebook's revolutionary new advertising system! It's going to change the fundamental advertising model! Advertising targeted to users with laser-like position! Relevance like you've never seen relevance before! Reach the most refined, relevant, pinpoint-focussed target market you can imagine! It isn't advertising - it's brands connecting socially with users in a two way conversation that changes everything!
Here's the first crappy facebookspam "social advertisement" I recieved, from just a couple of hours ago:
OK, so lets review here. Facebook is delivering me an ad to watch a TV channel that isn't broadcast in the country that I live in. It knows that I live in Egypt. It knows (I presume) that Adult Swim is a TV show broadcast in the US, and not in Egypt.
Is there any real difference between this and flat out spam? Shit I don't want and aren't looking for (US television schedules) thrown in my face with no choice to opt-out? Spam, I see thy foul tentacles invading another happy place....
I'd expect this from those Allens Hill Farm motherfuckers, but facebook? Say it aint so...
Here's the first crappy facebook
OK, so lets review here. Facebook is delivering me an ad to watch a TV channel that isn't broadcast in the country that I live in. It knows that I live in Egypt. It knows (I presume) that Adult Swim is a TV show broadcast in the US, and not in Egypt.Is there any real difference between this and flat out spam? Shit I don't want and aren't looking for (US television schedules) thrown in my face with no choice to opt-out? Spam, I see thy foul tentacles invading another happy place....
I'd expect this from those Allens Hill Farm motherfuckers, but facebook? Say it aint so...
posted by Tom Gara at 9:09 PM
9 Comments:
ahhha.we're motherfuckers.
weirdly enough this is the first time i've satisfied my nomad fix in a week. it probably makes me look like a nomadlife stalker to be posting a comment an hour later.
3:09 AM
i just untagged the pictures since they're obviously being met with some animosity. now only legit @ photos left. sorry
3:26 AM
For the record, AHF does have a mild connection to nomadlife as one of their family is one of our bloggers. It's kind of like me tossing up Hobo Pics, though slightly less delicious (IMHO).
That and we all secretly yearn for their savory, health-conscious cookies.
5:39 AM
allens hill farm, the pictures are lovely and delectable. you got hassled because they looked like an advertisement. you probably would have avoided heat by either:
-leaving out information like the dimensions of the baking pan or the site where one could purchase
-having your nickname something other than allens hill farm
as i recall, sheila has put up photos she has shot for advertisements before, but no one got disturbed since no one felt like they were being advertised to.
6:36 AM
allens hill farm, the pictures are lovely and delectable. you got hassled because they looked like an advertisement. you probably would have avoided heat by either:
-leaving out information like the dimensions of the baking pan or the site where one could purchase
-having your nickname something other than allens hill farm
as i recall, sheila has put up photos she has shot for advertisements before, but no one got disturbed since no one felt like they were being advertised to.
6:37 AM
click this: HINT
i didn't really think that this needed to be pointed out...
i forgot what internet ads look like.
8:25 AM
I have to say, Facebook's got me pretty well read: I see two adverts upon signing in, one for the Shins and one for the Beach Boys, both of which are listed under my preferred music.
8:37 PM
i think what happened was when we questioned the validity of those photos, allen never responded, so we assumed it to be robot adverts.
however, i still hate mix's hobo shit and his grandma's cooking.
10:29 PM
Johnny, why are you proclaiming hatred for your grandma? She was never as good as Facebook at advertising to you. For example, when you wet the bed she didn't offer diapers, she asked if you wanted a glass of water.
2:27 PM
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