I’m officially bummed that the newsfeed has grown so spammy that I get no value out of it anymore. Logging in and seeing this ad in my newsfeed really is a fitting coup de grâce.
Fred StutzmanThoughts about information, social networks, and privacy
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Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student, researcher and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. He studies how people use social media.
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I don’t see any ads OR facebook news spam-ads; I run AdBlock for the normal ads and have Greasemonkey extensions to get rid of the Facebook newsfeed ads. I highly recommend firing them up, makes the experience more pleasant. I can’t say my Newsfeed is as useful as it once was, either, but that’s because I have a lot of new friends that I don’t know very well or care much about clogging it up with random life-feed junk. Oh well.
The capitalists will sell us the shark with which we will jump them.
I guess that’s a US thing. So far my UK newsfeed is pretty clear.
The sponsored ads never really bothered me. I, like many others presumably, have become accustomed to the practice of ignoring ads on any website.
I think it’s a fair trade-off for the service they’re providing.
Yes, I’m ranting. But I am preparing a post on the value of information places, that will explore the costs of efficiency dilution.
Greasemonkey solves this problem. I even use it to load custom stylesheets for FB so that it changes color based on what the pictures are that appear in my feed. Sure, it’s dumb fun, but between all the ad blocking (I don’t see a single ad on FB ever) and that, it makes it feel more like a space that belongs to me and less a Push Portal for the stuff they want me to see. Scripts: Facebook flyer remover, facebook news feed as nuker, facebook autocolorizer, facebook autologin v 2. Now that I can play scrabble there, I’m a bit more hooked than I used to be.
Try sending the ad right back to them if possible.
Gary
I know I can block them, but I don’t want to have a relationship with such a valuable information space that I feel the need to block spam. So my point is more a meta-point. That probably didn’t come across well.
I don’t understand that, yeah. You don’t want to have a need to block spam? Or you refuse to block spam because you wish there wasn’t a need to block it?
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