Comments on Jump off the Bridge: Join My War on Facebook

I wrote a couple articles about the oppresive natu...

2009-02-23T05:54:00.000-05:00

I wrote a couple articles about the oppresive nature of Facebook, here:
http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/index.php?pr=worthypurpose

and here:
http://www.networkingisfun.net

Hope they help you in some way.

Love for the people,
-T

Ooooh! Interesting Ed! I need to look into that if...

2009-02-21T10:08:00.000-05:00

Ooooh! Interesting Ed! I need to look into that if I get tired of fighting my war.

i, too, hate the ads. i recently downloaded an ad...

2009-02-20T15:57:00.000-05:00

i, too, hate the ads. i recently downloaded an ad blocker program called Add-Art - it replaces the ads with art and works really well on FB! i never see the ads lately...

I've been labeling diet ads as offensive ever sinc...

2009-02-18T21:16:00.000-05:00

I've been labeling diet ads as offensive ever since they ran that godawful muffin-top ad (where a girl who probably weighed about half what I do is labeled as horrific and unloveable because she spills out over her pants).

I would love a series of ads showing women with "muffin tops" saying "Do you have this problem? Then buy some pants that fit and stop thinking that you have to wear size 2 jeans to be beautiful"

I then get about 5% or less of what I call the nor...

2009-02-18T18:14:00.000-05:00

I then get about 5% or less of what I call the normal ads. The ones about IQ, or Obama stickers, or the Bruce Springsteen album, or Battlestar Galactica posters. I imagine men get those, right?

Facebook ads work such that the ad poster gets to set the parameters for the ad, e.g. a someone posting ads for a Weight Loss Program in Seattle might set it so that everyone who is female, 15-30 years old, and in the Seattle network will see that ad. The person putting up ads for BSG might set it so that everyone who mentions scifi in their interests or BSG in their favorite TV shows sees it, etc. The perpetrator of the ad targeting is the poster, not Facebook as an entity.

I do like the idea of sending feedback to ads that are annoying. However, the tradeoff will probably be ads that are more targeted (or maybe not; the targeting parameters on FB are based in profile information and aren't incredibly sophisticated).

I then get about 5% or less of what I call the nor...

2009-02-18T17:16:00.000-05:00

I then get about 5% or less of what I call the normal ads. The ones about IQ, or Obama stickers, or the Bruce Springsteen album, or Battlestar Galactica posters. I imagine men get those, right?
There's usually a few of those mixed in with all the "Meet Hot Singles!!", "Need a Date this Weekend?" and "Interracial Dating Only" ads and tech ads. Contrary to what some may think being interested in pcs means they want a thousand ads telling them how to get a free macbook.

So according to facebook all women are fat and want to get married, all men want to meet hot chicks, and people interested in technology just want free stuff. Might be time to set my sites on facebook.

Woot! People joining the fight! Love it.JessSnark,...

2009-02-18T15:04:00.000-05:00

Woot! People joining the fight! Love it.

JessSnark, I actually did consider doing that, but I figure that then I have to make others suffer through the ads. It doesn't remove them for me either, but my hope (however false it is) is to flood them w/messages of "hey, you need new advertising!" at the very least.

Tagging the ads as offensive never worked for me- ...

2009-02-18T15:01:00.000-05:00

Tagging the ads as offensive never worked for me- they kept showing up. As soon as I switched my profile from female to nothing, they were gone.

I'm rarely on facebook anymore, but whenever I do ...

2009-02-18T14:34:00.000-05:00

I'm rarely on facebook anymore, but whenever I do log on, I WILL fight the ad war. Because all I get are diet ads, too! urgh.

I've been having a war with facebook for a while. ...

2009-02-18T13:22:00.000-05:00

I've been having a war with facebook for a while. I normally just get the ads for weight loss and tag them as offensive.