10 Reasons You Should Delete Your Facebook Account
9. Theyve Added The 'Buy' Button Despite Promising Not To
In a move to begin competing directly with online shopping giants like Amazon, Facebook are trialing the incorporation of a buy button on newsfeed advertisements as of this month. Thats despite their COO promising theyd never do so, as recently as a conference call in January. Previously, Facebook tried something a little similar with use of a site-specific currency for purchasing products advertised through them, but this was abandoned a little while ago after users failed to take them up on it. Well, 'Facebook Credits' does sound a little bit like something out of a bad dystopian sci-fi novel. The latest part of a long-running plan to make the social media behemoth more attractive to paid advertisers (who, lets not forget, Facebook provides with your data), the buy button is set to bring direct purchase to your Facebook experience alongside the targeted advertising that already corrupts your newsfeeds and timelines. Essentially, what this means is that all of those really irritating invasions of privacy, sold data and target marketing on this social media website just became properly monetised for the first time. You dont even need to leave Facebook to buy the products that it pushes to you. It reminds us of that moment when we realised that half the south coast of England had a London dialling code. It's everywherrre.
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