In another masked attempt to tick off most every one of their customers, Facebook again slips into some shady practices and backs them up with “you agreed to it in the Terms of Service.”
Take for example, Peter Smith, who was recently presented an ad on Facebook aiming to connect him with Hot Singles and the image of the hot single was his own wife. No, she hadn’t left her status as single and no she hadn’t signed up for Match.com or similar. Cheryl, like the hundreds of millions of other Facebook users had no idea of a setting that Facebook defaults to true allowing your picture to be used in your friends’ Facebook ads.
Thanks, Facebook, for reminding me again why I have no use for your borderline-ethical services.
And for you actual Facebook users, here’s the steps to change your settings to help you avoid lady-of-the-night status on your friends’ pages:
1. Settings
2. Privacy
3. News Feed and Wall
4. Click on “Facebook Ads”
5. In the “Appearance in Facebook Ads” box, click “no one”
Guess it won’t be long before I say goodbye to my junky/old/no-good iPhone 3G and replace it with the 3GS for use of apps like this:
Augmented Reality will quickly become a big deal in the next couple of years.
PS. My phone is neither old (6-months) or junky but isn’t that exactly how advertising works on a daily basis in our lives? The goal is to get you to purchase the latest and greatest from their clients and take almost any road possible including getting you to doubt the worth of your current device. Borderline practice at best. Confession: I love every minute of it.
I’m hoping at this point all I am doing is reminding you to check your feeds for the latest Abstract City by Christoph Niemann and not having to coerce you into finally adding it to your reading list. Do it.
His latest, Master of the Universe, isn’t quite his best work but still much better than most anything you’ll read on the web these days.
My wife can attest that I have some of the same tendencies when watching the Mavs or Cowboys among other things. Upon seeing that a certain sitting or standing position has had a positive (or negative) affect on the game I will more than likely end up holding it until its time for another team boost. It works, I’m convinced.
I need to find a laser printer somewhere so I can download and print all six parts of this free, open-source toolkit “created to assist those organizations providing services for communities in need.” Created by IDEO and the Gates Foundation among others.
At a glance it looks to be a road-map in how to setup and/or assist organizations who aim to benefit those in less fortunate countries.
I am extremely impressed with the new Carsonified.com that Ryan and team just launched in the last week or so.
Super clean, without bloat, illustrative without looking cartoon-y, and some fantastic teampages to boot.
Not that I’m surprised, their stuff is always spot on. Also, if someone’s looking for a nice Labor Day gift for me and hasn’t found just the right thing yet; I’d take some plane/event tickets for their Future of Web Design (FOWD) Conference.
