I Never See the Ads on Facebook

I love facebook, despite the annoyance of application bombardments, and have been an avid user for a good 3 years now, as I believe UW was one of the early add-ons after it left the Ivy League.   It was the first thing I logged into upon sitting at a computer for the majority of college... even before email.

But...but...but, I still, even with design changes to move the ads up to eye level, can only name two companies whom I've ever seen advertise on facebook, and one of those only because it's my favorite brand. 

Zuckerberg announced today (read liveblog at TechCrunch) the new monetization scheme to finally turn my million page views and insane amount of information I've uploaded into dollar signs for facebook inc.  I'm glad they're looking at things other than the sidebar skyscrapper, because we, as users, STILL DON'T SEE IT.  Whether it's relevant or not, there's so much to see and do at facebook that we zone it out, worse even than the tv commercials that we half listen to.

Seth Godin (as always) hit it on the head:
When someone comes to facebook, they're not looking for stuff, they're looking for people, but people don't buy ads, stuff does

Sadly for people who want to buy ads, they don't get seen (or clicked on) either.

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[sarah]

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