I have probably been trolled by an editorial headline, but these articles annoy me. Facebook is a business yet somehow the headline, "Hey Facebookers, it's what you signed up for...", determines that Facebook has sold out. Then again this is the opening paragraph:

Surprise, surprise. Social networking internet site Facebook has begun selling advertisements to all the people now addicted to it. The same people -- Gen X and Y -- advertisers normally find so difficult to reach. Cash cow, anyone?

I guess Facebook's investors should provide the bandwidth, development cost, project costs, etc so users never have to face an economic trade off to the service.
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Comments
  • I agree with everything you say. Yet, I still find Facebook ads really obnoxious.

    Then again, I don't even notice Google's ads but they clearly make a lot of money for the company. Maybe its just because I find Google useful. I'll have to find some other ad-supported service I like and use so I can get a proper comparison.
  • ucblockhead . # . 2/2
    That reminds me of the original suck.com. Their very first essay announced an intention to sell out at the first opportunity for whatever cash they could collect. They regularly repeated this. Yet they apparently constantly got accusations that they were "selling out" for one reason or another. (For instance, when they were bought by Wired.)