WalMart is advertising on Facebook

[diablose]

I look at Facebook right now and the left side banner ad is from WalMart. I'm not sure which I see as more significant, WalMart advertising on the Internet or Facebook landing such a big name as an advertiser. Not that I'm surprised. And I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it has been going on for a while. It's just that I just noticed it.

Comments

[kovarik_dude]

Just wait - rumor has it Microsoft is buying a significant (albeit minority) stake in the parent company.

Facebook = evil :)

[diablose]

ah, if you talk to most religions, they'll say that most fun things are evil with a :), so I don't see how Facebook is any worse than anything else I enjoy.

[kovarik_dude]

Oh, indeed, but I rarely consider social networking sites on the same level as a religious creed (or something I enjoy like beer, for that matter).

And in this case "evil" isn't really referring to the "traditional" moral values you'd find in various religions, but rather the geek pop-culture ideal that implies that going from a "let's generate lots of users in order to grow our site" model to "Let's make lots of profit, and marginally concern ourselves with the users" model is hated on, for various reasons.

It was intended as more of a joke than anything ;) I just happen to like poking at facebook (and/or myspace) as people tend to be attached to it in a rather....well...religious way.

Well, that and I dislike it.

Then again, my dislike for Microsoft is a bit myopic in that fashion as well.

[diablose]

It's always fun to poke you back when you're poking at something. :)