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This article reaks of helicopter parenting, with all the usual over-blown statements that make talking about targeted advertising so hard to explain: > Faceboo
by bertil 13y ago
This article reaks of helicopter parenting, with all the usual over-blown statements that make talking about targeted advertising so hard to explain:
> Facebook can’t buy our children, and it can’t sell them either.
Yes, slavery, because that’s exactly what’s at stake…
> But 10-year-olds still need supervision.
Not sure I need to point out that they have nothing to do on Facebook in the first place, or that humanising young corporation in a way to disparage the ability of their (very mature) executives to make decisions is lame. You are not Mark Zuckerberg’s, or Sheryl Sandberg’s mother — stop thinking that because you are someone’s mother, you are always right on all matters; otherwise, I'll have to point you to how the authors’ of Freakonomics have truckloads (litterally) of hatemail proving that being a parent… doesn’t exactly make you reasonable in general.
I'll pass the “my child is so smart” because… well, with a mother like you, I can only hope that she is, and focus on a simple thing: someone as opinionated as a hippie teenager can be probably never ‘Liked’ big corporate brand on Facebook, yet, they are apparently listed as such.
That is a purely technical problem, that has nothing to do with parental consent and kids’ agency, about how much control Facebook users have over their listed ‘Likes’. I wouldn’t sue Facebook, because, well, they have good lawyers and your narrow-minded hysterionics and over-helicoptering seems to have ruined the patience of every judge available. I’d go with the announcers, telling them that they are advertising to the wrong crowds because of technical glitches. But that's just me.
- ItendToDisagree 13y agoWhy all the name calling? The issue may not be all about corp hating hippy helicopter moms but something more important to everyone. The issue (to me) really seems to be that a company is using images they do not own, that depict people's children (who cannot legally consent to their pictures being used or any other contract), for their own profit. Regardless of if this is Facebook or anyone else it seems like there is an issue with the company claiming the right to use other peoples images for advertisements. I seem to remember a big flap about Instagram claiming they own the rights to peoples photos in the recent past. In this case it seems like there is the additional issue of the photos picturing people's children. Edit: I understand putting the text "so and so Likes this company" next to something if they actually 'liked' it. But the article implies that they are using the person's image in a custom advertisement in the feed.
- Atroxide 13y agoI think the whole article is sensational. I don't see any ads with actual friends. I do see what they like, but not actual ads. The author is just wording everything to make facebook seem worse.
- bertil 13y agoWhy the name calling? Because, given Facebook size, it should be addressed with calm and enough technical skillset — and because nothing gets on my nerves more than the “I'm a mum, therefore I'm right” argument. Having a vagina does not make anyone a specialist on gender issues (unlike what far too many people think), education and obviously not social networking policies.
- DanBC 13y agoSpit the hook. You got trolled hard by a bit of click bait in the shitty opinion section of an otherwise good newspaper.
- yuubi 13y agoEarlier articles [1] have said that one could click "Like" on a company's page and then have one's name and picture show up in a sidebar ad apparently endorsing a later post that one had never seen and perhaps found distasteful. I don't know whether this practice has changed or changed-so-some-peripheral-point-is-untrue-but-the-core-objection-is-still-present since. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/facebook-is-recycling-your-likes-to-promote-stories-youve-never-seen-to-all-your-friends/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/faceboo...
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoI think you're missing the point because you want to spread, I guess, what amounts to propaganda about "helicopter parenting" ...