Billboards Are Like Facebook

The worst part is that the person pictured next to the Revolights ad <i>almost certainly</i> does not know that they're being used next to the ad.<p>Here's an experiment guaranteed to make the front page of HN if you can write it up well: take screenshots of all the newsfeed ads you see and send them to the person pictured asking them if they were aware their image was being used that way.

&#62; Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.<p>If this is their mission statement they are failing miserably.<p>They would be succeeding if their mission stated "keeping in touch with friends" or "share cool stuff with friends", which for me is already great.<p>Of course, when you have a mission statement made by a board, you end with lots of grandiose BS and buzzwords like "open" and "connected".

Please learn to distinguish between metaphors and similies.<p>"* are like Facebook" is clearly a similie.

Let's hope that Facebook is experimenting with this, such that the end-result is not 80% ads. Facebook pages are starting to get noisy. I'm trying <a href="http://www.pinvolve.co/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pinvolve.co/</a> and it removes all ads from your FB pages.

It's word of mouth morphed into shove down your throat.<p>But I actually find it very helpful. Now anytime my friends likes a page, the pages most recent post (or something) gets displayed in my newsfeed.<p>I've used this to my own benefit multiple times.

That's a big reason that I don't use it anymore! That and the interface changing constantly and security issues!<p>Admittedly, I do have a fake account for my website that's updated automatically if anyone actually cares.

You can always install AdBlock, which blocks all ads.

I never stayed up all night chatting to a chair and sending it links. I'll give it a shot tonight. Also, when you make a chair bigger, it usually becomes a couch or a love-seat in the same way that when you make thefacebook.com bigger, it becomes a disgusting mess of ads and garbage applications all designed to get more data about you in the hope they can sell you something.<p>Seriously, the only people FB is fooling are the fools who use it. While those people exist (and they always have throughout history), FB or some sort of FB (social network) will exist. The problem is, like the author, people know that they don't want to be part of FB and yet they still are. Yes, it's an addiction, but it's an addiction that can be defeated. And you don't even have to do 12 steps. It's just one step and two weeks of waiting to delete your account.<p>The excuses form people who claim to hate FB but still use it are getting quite old by now. If you really want to make a point, cancel your FB account and then write this. It'll resonate a lot more.