BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others

Subject: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 11:25 AM

Why does this not surprise me?

Subject: RE: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: bobad
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 11:34 AM

According to the article the vast majority of those are not malicious - like the one created by the young daughter of an acquaintance for her imaginary friend "Petunia Pig".

Subject: RE: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 11:53 AM

"Now its [Facebook's] own figures show that more than 80 million of its global audience may be in effect worthless to advertisers - either duplicate accounts or spammers or perhaps cats and dogs."

What's wrong with cats and dogs? They have needs - pet food, flea treatments, collars with rhinestones. A click from a cat or dog could mean a significant sale.

Subject: RE: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:37 PM

I posted the following a day or so back on another thread--which quickly died off:

'Facebook stock is down 10%, and employees seem ready to sell their stocks in mid August. I will not be sad to see Facebook go tits up. They have treated their base with contempt. Facebook pages can be bot-generated, and the scheme to sell products/ads based on your advertisement profile just isn't really working.

Facebook has a few good uses, but from what I've seen it is meant to appeal to people with a thirty second attention span. Blathering twits with instant like/dislike buttons, a poorly-thought out construct in the first place.

Facebook has not given a rat's ass about identity theft. Slow response and it seems they have done little if anything to curb it. I hope they go down the tubes for that. Period.'

My view ain't changed.

Subject: RE: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: Musket
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 12:48 PM

I have never bothered with Facebook. I have a twitter account purely in order to post links to professional journals / blogs and articles, as twitter seems the way to bring things to the attention of those you wish to inform these days.

In fact, now I have changed my car and therefore not on the Jag owners club equivalent of Mudcat, this is the only thing I post to.

Mind you, I have stopped posting in my real name, as I was googled for work purposes and they saw links to my personal waffle and diatribe on politics, religion, sex and the definition of folk music (!)

My responsible adult is on Facebook though and it still catches me out when a friend I haven't seen for ages says my dog looked like he was having fun in The Yorkshire Dales the other week.....

Ian

Subject: RE: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 05:16 PM

Well I've made contact with a couple of old friends, one of whom I hadn't heard of for over 40 years. So it's not all bad. However it is badly run, poorly policed, and has total contempt for its' members, or advertising fodder as I think they see us.
Of course the targetted advertising isn't working, who tells the truth about their details on public sites???

Subject: RE: BS: No surprise to Richard/Don + many others
From: olddude
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 05:21 PM

never understood the targeted ads on any of the sites. Companies pay a fortune for them and it has been shown they don't product much traffic .. go figure ...