Facebook, Zuckerberg sued over IPO

Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill

This is really telling:

" It is the pay per click ad that is the root of all evil. And it all started with Google. When these little links started popping up like wild mushrooms all over our search results we didn't think much of them. They seemed harmless. Then they slowly started spreading all over. Soon we learned that clicking on one of these links would take us into the weirdest corners of the Internet, deep into the land of embarassing pop-ups, scams, sites that took us hostage and simply refused to let us leave with endless pop up asking us if we really wanted to leave, freezing up our computer. They promised free iPods and iMacs if you clicked on them, tried to get us to try weird pills, diets and pumps. Smiley faces screaming that we'd won God knows what late at night, making us jump in our chairs. And slowly but surely they gained a reputation for being just plain shady. Surveys for cash, lottery winnings...I've never seen a respectable product advertised on a pay per click ad. Ever. Never have I ever thought "Hey let's check out these ads, let's see what deals I can find today!" because they really aren't legitimate ads, they're schemes. They have no credibility, link upon link pushing you, taking you to weird ebook sites when you click on them. They are an annoyance. They are misleading almost 95% of the time and they all scream "click me!" asking you to give up control and follow them to their lair where they can push some RX pill from Canada on you.

And they have kept and keep spreading. So now when we do a Google Search it is like looking through the trash. Site upon site filled with these meaningless links as far as the eye can see making web pages ugly and useless. The entire Internet is filled with these sites. We will never get rid of them. Everyone avoids these links like the plague because we've been down that road before and we know better. They make the Internet look ugly. They make relevant information harder to get to. They make us waste time. They make it so that you have to be on the lookout every time you browse the web because they are out to get you. They will fill your PC with viruses. Who knows why. It never should have been this way. They should have never existed.

Nothing can disturb your browsing experience more than clicking on one of these ads by mistake. Anger, frustration and curse words ensue. We've become masters at avoiding them and ignoring them. We don't want to see them, these little links taunting us trying to trick us with their lies. We know no one ever won that free iPhone. It's just the Internet messing with us.

All I have to say about this is: Thank you Google.

And so it is that when Facebook started using these little pay per click ads they never had a chance. We no longer saw them as something that could provide useful information, they were just a scam, another obstacle between us and our information. A little banner trying to trick us into giving out our credit card information. They couldn't be trusted. We will never trust them. This is why they have lost all hope of being a viable source of reliable information. They did it all themselves with Google helping them along the way. They have no one else to blame."


a comment from someone called meebits at:


The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review




There needs to be a serious change in the way we sell on the net.