I paused the ads Friday night without knowing Saturday I couldn’t restart them since Facebook launched “ads” now I have so settle for a dinky little ad getting a brutal CTR.

I was getting a 4/5/6% CTR rate. Now I am getting .04%
I won’t pay to advertise like that much longer.

I enjoyed FLyers but not telling advertisers first, my flyers wouldnt be available for use Saturday, which i paid to have designed was a big blow.

Did I mention the new format sucks?

No, I am not an advertiser, I am just a regular ex-college facebook user that hates to hear ppl complain about privacy. Nothing you post on the internet is private. If you don’t want advertisers and stalkers to know your phone # and address, then DON’T POST IT!

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What set this apart is that Facebook is using my name to spam *my friends*. That’s a new line crossed.

If this is at least opted in, that’s one thing, as I’m the willing participant. But if this isn’t opted-in, as in the case I experienced last night with kongregate.com + facebook, then it’s both a privacy issue as well as a stupid design that will alienate users.

Maybe it’s a bug or a loop hole that they will fix. But according to Kongregate’s comment on my blog entry above, it is by design. That’s just a big bowl of wrong.

The average user will not even know about this, and probably will be excited to see when their friends buy/rent/view/rate something they did as well. The problem is - these articles are outside the target audience. A bunch of techies that probably have javascript turned off by default - kids that use these sites extensively tend to LIKE bombarding everyone with there twitterific messages.

Will it give facebook defining info about their users? Yes - if you opt in.
Will it let them target their users, which will benefit ad delivery, and potentially, sponsors/companies? Possibly, but time will tell if the internet bubble will burst before it’s effective.
Will it invade people’s privacy? No more than cookies all ready do.

And for those of you who want to talk about private browsing - you have to quit thinking in terms of yourself and the social beast that is the masses. Two different entities. I have a feeling those of you on social networking sites will sing a different tune once the tide has come to pass.

Easy as that, everyone.

i was able to create a page for Nike , George Bush , Facebook, , and, just now, TechCrunch .

However, I tried to make a page for Justin Timberlake, and the response was “Our automated system will not approve “Justin Timberlake” as a valid Page name. If you believe this is an error, please contact our Customer Support team.” (Same with Jay-Z, btw — but no problems creating Ron Paul this morning).

What happens when Nike sees the not-so-flattering (satire, people) page I created and wants FB to take it down? I suppose they can, but man, this is going to create a whole new policing arm inside of the company that I can’t imagine they’ll sustain.

As a Facebook user, I’d rather see targeted ads than annoying University of Phoenix, Proactiv, and American Apparel Leggings (and the sad part is, they can target gender…). I listed Smashing Pumpkins in my favorite music section, and I saw an ad for the Smashing Pumpkins tour yesterday. That’s advertising that doesn’t annoy me, and is actually relevant.

The advertisers don’t actually get any of my personal info, they just get to decide who to show it to.

Sips is a branded advertising widget that combines SuperPoke with a Tamagotchi. The value here is that the consumers on Facebook still get a fun widget to play with, and Sprite gets the benefit of their brand being broadcasted on their minifeed. In addition, the outcry from technology news sites such as TechCrunch further broadcasts their brand and application throughout the web.

Criticize Facebook all you want, but they have slowly started to penetrate the online advertising landscape, I give it 12 months before we really start to see the effect that it has on AdWords.