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Another privacy 'win' by Facebook. I'm somewhat surprised by this feature, it would be fairly easy to abuse. If you were suddenly upset with say Starbucks you
by 51Cards 16y ago
Another privacy 'win' by Facebook.
I'm somewhat surprised by this feature, it would be fairly easy to abuse. If you were suddenly upset with say Starbucks you could change your photo and use your 'check-in' comments to push negative advertising as well. Not only negative advertising, but targeted negative advertising.
- bpeters 16y agoBusinesses will soon be paying for their own negative feedback... uhm fail?
- il 16y agoSounds just like reddit ads.
- sudont 16y agoI'd wager that there'll be at least some sort of Bayesian "hate" filtering. That means something like "Fuck McDonalds" won't trigger the ad. No idea how they'd deal with positive-word, negative-connotation satire, though.
- jcl 16y agoThat suggests that there is an easy way to opt out: Just include some profanity each time you check in.
- mayank 16y agoThere's no way that they can implement thorough manual curation at the scale Facebook is at. Even better, as the parent suggested, use positive words to avoid any automated sentiment analysis: Starbucks makes my colon sing!
- joelrunyon 16y agoI believe that business can bypass this to an extent by only opting to sponsor stories generated via applications...I read that in another article somewhere yesterday. runs off to find said article
- zoomzoom 16y agoI bet the brand gets a "veto" flag, probably with automatic mood analysis built in.