Facebook Ad Service = Pumpkin Creepy

SocialAds, that’s what they’re calling it in advance of Facebook’s announcement about it’s own social ad network on the 6th.

What does it mean? Basically Facesoft will serve ads based on your social stream, even use that information to serve ads on third party sites within the Microsoft ad network.

If internet privacy is not already a concern of yours then this is probably akin to having your wallet stolen, unsettling, but not life threatening, I mean they could have stolen an organ or a limb or something. If internet privacy is a concern then things just got a bit armageddon on yo ass.

Where’s the haz-chem suit option? I don’t want ads based on my social stream, it’s pumpkin creepy! I want to pay a nominal sum and have the pure ad free experience and spare the assault on my senses from all the dross banner ad crap out there.

Facebook has bold ambitions to be the place we hang out online, the virtual playground with it’s giant watercooler and table football, the place we can all eye the pretty girls, but never actually summon up the courage to speak to them, just poke them! (clearly a term invented by a post-teen geek)

It’s Halloween and I accidentally hit a child with a packet of ghoul shaped chocolate biscuits whilst he and his gang hustled me for cash n’stuff on my doorstep so maybe this social ad stuff is all a prank… whatever happens Mike Arrington will have the scoop and dish out the pith.

‘What will be really interesting to see is what form these ads will take, and will they become social applications in and of themselves that spread virally like a Facebook app?’ (Techcrunch)

The word you’re looking for Mike is ‘appvertising‘ and it doesn’t read your diary, emails nor apply freaky face recognition technology to your photos in an economy and webosphere driven mad by it’s need to make advertising more specific. Did Zukerberg & Co at Facebook Condominiums ever stop and ask if we really wanted all this? I’m starting a social networking site call Book Da Face (it has an urban feel), you pay a $1 per week and get to talk street with other web urchins, free from a daily invite to share in someones ninja zombie cr’app.

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