{"id":2304,"date":"2011-09-23T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T00:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2011-09-23T20:30:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T00:30:11","slug":"facebooks-timeline-is-nothing-but-a-lazy-marketing-data-parser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/facebooks-timeline-is-nothing-but-a-lazy-marketing-data-parser\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook’s Timeline is nothing but a LAZY and BLUNT marketing data parser"},"content":{"rendered":"

With every major update of Facebook’s experience they reveal little by little how creepy they are, because instead of looking at the things users need, each release just shows (no matter how pretty they make it) that they’re after nothing but the things that can be told to their advertisers about you, plain and simple. It’s not a social network, it’s a living marketing survey.<\/p>\n

All along they were parsing whatever it is that we talk about, but it seems they need to get more efficient at it, their solution? Make the user click on drop downs that describe those things advertisers have to bid the highest Cost Per Click for.<\/p>\n

This image explains better what I mean
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Go Zuckerberg! Nice try, not buying the timeline crap over here. Google+<\/a> gets better and better.<\/p>\n

Follow the geek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With every major update of Facebook’s experience they reveal little by little how creepy they are, because instead of looking at the things users need, each release just shows (no matter how pretty they make it) that they’re after nothing but the things that can be told to their advertisers about you, plain and simple. 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