Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/17
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Not 100% true with facebook, what you say.
Email notifications: might be unabled in the personal profile.
Profile data: only facebook collects the profile data, AFAIK they do not
sell adresses or profiles (but maybe will do one day - rumours are going
on). What I am concerned, I have not received one facebook related spam mail
in half a year of membership. But I get ads related to my gender and age
("Hair loss troubles?" ;-)
Ads on facebook: Consider me as mean bad shadowy marketing gnome ;-) if you
want... Actually I am planning to run an ad campaign on facebook switzerland
in march, for a client of mine, for almost 100k CHF (85k $). As facebook ad
client, I have the choices of targeting by country, by age, by gender, and
keywords like lifestyle and such. I have no way to get member's adresses or
profiles or group memberships. Nevertheless we expect the campaign to be
more effective than a 500k CHF print campaign.
facebook is similar to the LUG: a saloon where you spend more time gabbling
and chatting than you wanted ;-)
Didier
>John,
>
>after my wife tried various similar things and started getting one
>helluvalot of unsolicited mails, I decided not to.
>
>Most of them are run in the shadowy background by marketing people
>collecting addresses and target group profiles and selling them at enormous
>profit. As soon as you enter any of your interests or hobbies you are
>already a target for "target group relevant" marketing mailings.
>
>The only thing I'm in that is vaguely similar is the Schlumberger Alumni
>Hub for ex-employees.
>
>Douglas