Facebook Gets More Ads
We've been covering the evolution of Facebook quite a bit lately, including its new status as the new face of social dissidence, its newly inflated value thanks to a buy-in from Microsoft, and its, erm, libidinous content. Now seems like the perfect time for its creators to start cashing in, and that's what they're doing with a new suite of ads destined for your Facebook account.The ads will come in two flavors. The most annoying will be ones that show up in status updates. The News Feed, a running view of what your friends are up to, is one of Facebook's most popular features. Usually it's full of mundane updates and failed attempts at wit, but now it could be full of corporate logos. With this new ad scheme, if any of your friends do anything related to any of the site's sponsors, some sort of advertisement will pop up along with the update from that friend, making it look like they're shilling some product like Taco Bell or Toyota. The other type of advertising coming to Facebook is more traditional: static ads that will appear when you're viewing and editing your profile.
Though advertising can be a real turn-off, the site is still free. Still, it's somewhat sad to see the beginning of ads on the typically clean and simple Facebook. We can only hope that this isn't the beginning of the site's slow slide toward a MySpace-like state of flashing ads.
From I4U News
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