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It almost feels as though they were trying to beat SNL to the punch on making fun of the new product. I think one of the reasons the Home product rubs me the w
by ndespres 14y ago
It almost feels as though they were trying to beat SNL to the punch on making fun of the new product.
I think one of the reasons the Home product rubs me the wrong way is similar to the reason I resent junk-food companies for knowing exactly who their target consumer is, and building a product suited perfectly to taking advantage of the weaknesses of those consumers to move more of their product. Just like the way a nearby television broadcasting commercials starts loud and with a flash, designed to pull your eye in.
This product takes advantage of the brain's weakness for bright, shiny moving things, instant reward of an image flashing with a sound effect when you complete the desired action ("liking" something). Users won't be able to put it down. It feels cheap.
- unholyalliance 14y agoPerhaps we should prevent Facebook from airing ads, like we do for Marlboro.
- mh- 14y agoyou're free to do that now: outbid them, with your money, for all of the advertising spots. then you can promote whatever you want - until someone else comes along and decides to obstruct you, of course.
- unalone 14y agoThat's facetious and doesn't address OP's point, which is that certain industries are banned from advertising their products in certain ways when said products could harm their users. I don't agree that Facebook is necessarily at the point where we can call it harmful, but your "all you need to do is outbid Facebook" spiel is some smarmy nonsense – not least of which because Facebook itself owns some premier adspace outright, which it's more than willing to use to spam whatever new product of theirs that they'd like.
- ndespres 14y agoFacebook IS the ad.