[Jim Robinson]

"Facebook has been bulking up advertising services as the social network’s mobile ads propel revenue and profit. While users and privacy watchdogs around the world criticize Facebook’s use of personal data, the company is under pressure from advertisers to prove that their mobile promotions are effective."

I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR.

[RedMDer]

BTTT!

[trisham]

I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR.

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Me too, Jim.

[DJ MacWoW]

Me too. It would be the death of freedom.

[Uncle Miltie]

On the other hand, perhaps a recruitment drive is in order.

If we double the number of FR readers, we are likely to double the number of FR contributors.

What if we STRONGLY encourage FReepers to ask several of their conservative FRiends to come on over and read our site?

I think FR revenue will follow suit. Especially, we need to turn on younger folks to FR, before we turn into a generationally divided group.

Perhaps some of our internally focused advertising on threads can encourage current readers to recruit new readers.

Hey, that’s my 2 cents for the day! Person to Person marketing!

Be well, Mr. Thompson!

[jazusamo]

I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR.

Amen to that.

[upchuck]

I pray we never have to go to advertising to fund FR.

I also hope that Jim. But remember, advertising is one thing. Tracking is a whole nuther thing, and the source of this gnashing of teeth.

[I_be_tc]

Gonna keep trying to fund. Thanks for all you do

[Syncro]

Facebook has an ap for smart phones.

I thought good, that will make it easier to post to facebook from my phone.

I clicked install on Facebook Messenger and got this information:

Needs access to:

Contacts/calendar
location
SMS (some kind of message thingie)
Phone (all my contacts, and permission to call any of them from my phone)
Photos/Media/Files
Camera/Microphone (can take a picture of my Cheetos stained fingers and listen to my calls. And probably like the NSA, anything said when the phone is within hearing distance)
WiFi connection info
Device ID and call information
And then the last one: (as if they might have missed something!)
OTHER

Then I tried the facebook ap, and had to agree with this:

Needs access to:
Device and app history
Identity
Contacts/Calandar
And the rest were duplicates from the Mess Ap

I hit cancel.

On TV the other night there was a story on this, talking about how facebook wants to have ALL of your information and the ability to do whatever they want with it if you use their aps.

I hope lots of people saw it.

Heck, we pretty much let them do that if we just have a facebook account anyway.

[MeshugeMikey]

Amen and AMEN!

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed. Buuuump for more donors!