Facebook Just Made Me Realize, I Want to Date WEALTHY Men!
January 12, 2008
Facebook, you used to be so awesome. I could log into you and find out what was going on with all of my friends. I could tag photos, poke people and write on their walls. The only people I was friends with were my actual friends. The advertising was unobtrusive. It was a nice world.
Then came platform. And Beacon. And targeted advertising. Now I am constantly bombarded with advertising that — based on the fact that I’m single and female — tries to convince me that I’m overweight and desperate for a boyfriend. And as if that weren’t bad enough, this is the ad that popped up when I logged on this evening:
If Facebook thinks I’m this pathetic, maybe I should just log off. Permanently.
@TeteSagehen strange how that works @dacort had ambien the other day so irony for all. nite for real this time.
Hey Teresa - gosh, I totally hear your FB frustrations. However, isn’t it interesting we talk about Facebook like it was an intelligent, thinking person?
Yet, it’s a big ol’ dumb computer with algorithms drawing from the data. Granted, there are business owners behind the systems.
For me, I simply choose to ignore 90% of the “visual noise.” There’s no question FB will continue to evolve and grow. No matter how annoying some of the bells & whistles are, I still think it’s the bestest!
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But Teresa - don’t you *want* to meet the kind of guy who joins a network of guys who earn 6 figures and want to date women who click on advertisements for networks of guys who date 6 figures? =P
I wonder what the guys’ version of that ad is…
Teresa:
Maybe you should do that anyway. Facebook is privvy to the most intimate details of your life, which they DO sell to the highest bidder. And in return, what do you get? The exact same thing you get if you were to go out with your friends in the first place.
Granted, social websites allow us to socialize without actually needing to make the time to go out. But personally, I think that the infringement on our privacy and our dignity is really not worth the reward.
I do not have a facebook account and I never will. I’m even thinking of deleting my MySpace profile, which I never use, for all the good it’ll do me - they’ve got my information now and they’ll never get rid of it.
I’m not a Luddite by any means, but I think we’re jumping into this “give every company our most intimate details without any guarantee of privacy and dignity” thing way too quickly. Privacy is absolutely fundamental to human social interaction. Without it, we’re going to be forced to redefine our existence in ways we can’t even imagine. And for what.. so we can poke someone on a website.
Maybe things would be different if we could actually control how that information is used. But we can’t, because these companies content that that information doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to them. Excuse me, since when is my age, my gender, my political preference, information that belongs to you?. This is MY information that I LET you know. Yet court cases have been fought over the issue and the courts come down firmly on the side of the companies.
I guess I don’t see the appeal…
Im going to get together with a bunch of guys And form a dating group called the buss pass boys. Date hot guys who can be atyour place within 2 hours! Assuming they don’t miss the 48……
Patrick: You raise some really interesting points here. I’m going to go into my thinking bunker for a couple of days and mull them over.
Privacy doesn’t seem to mean as much to so many people. Except for in a few key areas, it means very little to me. My life is pretty much an open book.