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> And if you want your data to be reposted on another site, then you should repost it. I had to giggle a little bit at this in the grand scheme of the internet
by mnicole 14y ago
> And if you want your data to be reposted on another site, then you should repost it.
I had to giggle a little bit at this in the grand scheme of the internet, sorry.
When I posted something on Facebook Marketplace, I started getting emails and comments from other "market" sites that Facebook had cross-posted my listing to.
While it was annoying to not know this up front, the fact that it was more visible and getting more bites because of it only helped me make the sale quicker. If a service wants to piggyback off of another to make my postings more buoyant, as a user and seller, I don't have a problem with it.
- hollerith 14y agoIn response to your "only helped": on one of the other Padmapper stories here on HN, someone wrote that after their item sold and they cancelled the Craigslist ad, they continued to get contacted about the item because third parties had scraped the ad and did not stop displaying their copy when the ad disappeared from Craigslist.
- mnicole 14y agoThis happened to me on the Facebook ad too, but I preferred it it over the lack of any response at all - it proved the services were used. Easy to ignore them or send a generic reply.
- eli 14y agoPersonally, I'd prefer if Facebook acted a little more like Craigslist with my data, not the other way around.
- wwweston 14y agoInterestingly, in both cases, the economic incentives for operators seem to be basically counter to likely user intent and expectations.