Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted

[Archean]

Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted


A BBC investigation suggests companies are wasting large sums of money on adverts to gain "likes" from Facebook members who have no real interest in their products.

I don't have any facebook account, but I must admit that I once created an account just to 'like' something (don't remember what the heck it was) for a friend, so it kind of make sense to me. Note that FB suspects that around 50 million accounts are fake.

 

[Marnomancer]

Which is why I use ad-block. Haha. Ad-free Facebook for me. Though I'm still looking for a good anti-game-request solution.

 

[HuntForTheWOrst]

Like Marnomancer Said Ad-Block Ftw .

 

[Benny26]

Ad-Block does wonders for me. Couldn't browse without it now.

 

[davislane1]

Sounds about right. When I had a FB account the only advertisement pages that seemed at all worth their coin were pages for musicians and sports teams, pages that people would actively seek out. Everything else was either a nuisance or handled by Ad-Block.

@Maronmancer
I thought there was an option in Facebook's account preferences to disable game requests?

 

[Benny26]

If Facebook do have an option to disable all game requests, It's very well hidden. I also suffer badly from them.

 

[Marnomancer]

Agreed with Benny26.
I haven't seen that option yet. I'll look it up now.

 

[learninmypc]

Personally, facebook is a waste of time. It seems everytime one logs in , they gots to update their privacy settings.
Every time I get the guts to take the plunge, I read something bad has happened,again.
I have no problem keeping up to date with my friends via email. Those privacy setting haven't changed in 11 years & still working.(y)