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I watched Dave Gorman on Dave the other day and there was like eight entire minutes of ONLY ads filling the entire screen in a half hour show! They even stopped the show in the middle to show me more adverts! And they were for stuff I had no interest in at all! Shocking, when will it end? What's the world coming to?
Even worse, I bought a MTB mag the other day and it was 50% ads. I paid £5 for it too...
@molgrips - you watch commercial TV? Weird 😉
Commercial TV (well UK TV) is slightly different in that you get a programme ident before and after the ad breaks. The US TV model is that there's no gap between content and adverts so you'll be watching something and an advert starts. FB follows the US model.
Now here's a thing.
This morning, Facebook has fired at me an ad for bank account switching. I've definitely not been looking to do so although I did read a post on here yesterday about it.......
Hmm, I wonder how that works.
[quote=molgrips ]I watched Dave Gorman on Dave the other day and there was like eight entire minutes of ONLY ads filling the entire screen in a half hour show! They even stopped the show in the middle to show me more adverts! And they were for stuff I had no interest in at all! Shocking, when will it end? What's the world coming to?
HD recorder and FFWD FTW. Sadly that doesn't appear to be an option on FB.
I find ads on FB goes in distinct waves, I'll see none for days and then they'll completely saturate my feed with ad after ad for a day (all of which I block using their option to do so).
Would be much more sensible to just spread them out a bit....
People are almost conditioned to think they are living an exciting rockstars lifestyle. That everybody wants to see what they had for breakfast; where they walked the dog; what their partner said over tea, or what sage-like words of wisdom they have philosophized that day ... basically most people just post a complete load of uninteresting nonsense; basically the nonsense they wouldn`t dare bore a person outside of social media with.
Yet people know most employers, or potential employers, will search social media for such nonsense ... and it could cost them their job/offer.
Kids will almost encourage themselves to be victims of online bullying by posting endless selfies ... then get all depressed and suicidal when someone says how stupid and ugly they look.
[quote=mooman ]People are almost conditioned to think they are living an exciting rockstars lifestyle. That everybody wants to see what they had for breakfast; where they walked the dog; what their partner said over tea, or what sage-like words of wisdom they have philosophized that day ... basically most people just post a complete load of uninteresting nonsense; basically the nonsense they wouldn`t dare bore a person outside of social media with.
Yet people know most employers, or potential employers, will search social media for such nonsense ... and it could cost them their job/offer.
Kids will almost encourage themselves to be victims of online bullying by posting endless selfies ... then get all depressed and suicidal when someone says how stupid and ugly they look.
I bet you Follow the Daily Mail on facebook
People are almost conditioned to think they are living an exciting rockstars lifestyle. That everybody wants to see what they had for breakfast; where they walked the dog; what their partner said over tea, or what sage-like words of wisdom they have philosophized that day
Honestly, my feed is NOT like that.
scotroutes - MemberI bet you Follow the Daily Mail on facebook
... ummm, is n`t the Daily Mail a newspaper? so if I followed that, wouldnt I be having silly right-wing headlines ... and not what I just described?
But I get where your coming from ... straight from FB obviously 🙄
[quote=molgrips ]Honestly, my feed is NOT like that.
<posting a load of rubbish for molgrips' feed>
Mine neither - I don't know what I've done wrong. I have loads of FB friends and none of them post inane drivel 🙁
most people just post a complete load of uninteresting nonsense; basically the nonsense they wouldn`t dare bore a person outside of social media with.
Well yes and no.
e.g. A mate of mine often posts photos of his kayak trips and I quite enjoy flicking through them on Facebook to see where he has been and live adventures vicariously through him.
But if he showed up at the pub one night with his photo album then people would rightly think he was a bit weird.
Yet people know most employers, or potential employers, will search social media for such nonsense ... and it could cost them their job/offer.
Pretty easy to block, only friends can see my profile and you can't search for me by email.
Not if you post in public areas.
Also companies I have worked with have profiled people not only by there own activity but the whats known about their connections.
How do you think we ended up with Brexshit and Trump? A whisper here and whisper there in the ear and before you know it an Orange idiot looks like a good leader.
Yes, it's a good way of weeding out the companies that you definitely wouldn't want to work for.
Yes, it's a good way of weeding out the companies that you definitely wouldn't want to work for.
🙂