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Facebook had their chance. They failed. Call yourselves whatever you want. Buy other people work and improve it as much as you want. "We will never sell ads."
by chatterhead 4y ago
Facebook had their chance. They failed. Call yourselves whatever you want. Buy other people work and improve it as much as you want.
"We will never sell ads."
Then sold ads.
Nope. We already had a generational curb stomping by Microsoft.
No more Zuckerberg.
- CamelCaseName 4y agoWhen did Facebook ever say they wouldn't sell ads? You mean user data? FB launched their ad marketplace in 2007, and it's the reason they nearly hit a $1T market cap nearly 15 years later.
- jboy55 4y agoI think they mean when Jesse Eisenberg told Andrew Garfield Facebook would never sell ads, which is what Justin Timberlake told him, setting up the essential personal conflict between Jesse and Andrew in the movie The Social Network.
- chatterhead 4y agoYes that's correct. lol It's actually because of their intense manipulation model and penchant for abusing it's users. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-apologises-psychological-experiments-on-users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
- Lt_Riza_Hawkeye 4y agoAlso, FB doesn't sell user data either, so I'm not sure what OP was talking about
- dundermuffl1n 4y ago*nearly, just $650B away at this point.