I always argued that free was a bad starting point for companies wishing to make money. Then Google came along and showed how it could be done. Then social media came along and charging for anything became a form of blasphemy.
So I have some sympathy for he mess that Facebook is in. I stayed out of the dog-kicking fracas when they introduced Beacon, which I hoped was the worst idea the world's most promising social network would come close to.
But I was wrong again. TechCrunch says that Ads-Click has introduced MicroSocialAds on Facebook.This is a 3rd party ap that pays you to spam your pals. I can hear the drool dropping from the jowls of the Pay per Post Crowd. Why should Facebook care? Because it brings in one more avenue of crap that I may have to deal with if I stay with Facebook.
For me, Facebook is starting to remind me of an old college romance. It was torrid at first and I thought it was true love. But then there came a series of unpleasant surprises in her behavior. One morning I woke up and discovered she who had been so lovely so recently had become downright ugly to me.
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