Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Facebook 'likes' to be used by advertisers.

Very soon companies will be able to advertise their brands through the social networking site 'Facebook' by republishing user posts.
There is currently no way for users to decline this feature that enables advertisers to publish adds on the users page as a "Sponsored story"..

AP Techonology writer Barbara Ortutay revealed the news to the unaware Facebook users today.
Follow this link to read more.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Facebook-to-let-advertisers-apf-1912961417.html?x=0

2 comments:

kharris said...

I actually thought companies were already doing this, but I don't have a problem with it. Especially considering that everyone else is constantly networking something on there.

Andy Duncan said...

Katie, isn't "user posts" a bit misleading, since the story doesn't say Facebook plans to sell, say, status updates?