eric rochow

I check on Facebook 1 or 2 times a day, its not the perfect place for me to be all the time, and now its even less.

I was looking thru my ‘Entourage’ and right above it is this:

Now, I know on most sites, this is a joke, but the button looks like a regular Facebook button. So I clicked on it, and sure enough, you can win an iPod, but you must jump through a bunch of hoops by signing up for services that you probably don’t want.

‘Participation’ its called. Ads like this annoy users and will drive them away. You’d think a social network would be more transparent, but no. If something is an advertisement, it should look like one and say it is. This makes people feel tricked, and its not a great confidence builder.