Comments on: Coca-Cola will never be my friend

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:32:05 +0000

Chi-chi, I have a feeling their answer would be that you’re worth more to them dead than alive. So to speak.

By: Chi-chi Ekweozor

Chi-chi Ekweozor — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:59:11 +0000

Interesting thoughts and valid points.

Iâ€™m taking a slightly more contrarian view, however.

Iâ€™ve gotten enough value out of Facebook as it is that I am willing to pay a nominal monthly subscription so that I donâ€™t see any Social Ads.

More here:
http://tinyurl.com/yvxurx

By: Mark Federman

Mark Federman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:17:24 +0000

Further indication that today’s marketer’s, in general, do not understand how marketing has changed over the past decade or so. More important, this demonstrates that marketers still hold to simple, deterministic, cause-and-effect models of buying behaviour, rather than acknowledging that complexity rules the day when it comes to the ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate world.

I don’t fault Zuckerberg on this move. He’s just playing P.T. Barnum to the marketers’ rubes.

And, Joe Duck: the social network that gives you a piece of Coca Cola’s action is called the stock market.

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:27:37 +0000

“Iâ€™m greedy to ask for that? Maybe, but only about 1/1,000,000,000 as greedy as Facebook or Google. I can live with that.”

LMAO, and agree completely. What he said.

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:21:00 +0000

Facebook needs a way to make money but this approach seems creepy somehow given the user information it’ll be using to do the targeting.