In Kristen's blog this week, she talked about the sponsored stories on Facebook and posed this question: Have you noticed these new types of advertising on Facebook? Would you be more likely to react to an advertisement and use a product or go to a place that you know your friends have been to?
The sponsored stories on Facebook can be something your friends have visited or it could be linked to the items you've "liked" or "followed" on Facebook. I notice these ads every time I go on Facebook because it is usually a bright ad that grabs your attention. I almost always get an ad for shoes or a clothing store and I see these ads constantly on my Facebook and any other website I go onto. These ads can be things your friends have liked, which can sometimes sway my opinion to like them as well, but I tend to pay less attention to them, and sometimes I ignore them completely if it is a friend I don't tend to agree with on items.
These ads are helpful for the companies using them because people like to know the opinions of their friends before they purchase something and having an ad that your friend has "liked" helps to sway you to purchase the product.
Do you think that there are other ways for the ads to catch your attention than to have your friends opinions linked to them?
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