Have you ever made the mistake of clicking on one of those sponsored ads on Facebook? Someone famous is dead, or has gotten remarried to someone else famous, or is crying, or has ruined his or her reputation, or has had a shocking secret revealed. When you click on it, you get an ad for something completely arbitrary, like shoes or a questionable weight loss product. Lies. Lies. Pure lies. I can’t believe that any website would be a party to that.
I’m also amazed that advertisers think this is a good idea. I mean, yes, you got me to click. Yes, I visited the site. But did I buy anything? No. I just got pissed off and left and learned my lesson. I’ll never click on one of those things again, and I’d rather die than give those people any of my hard-earned money. It doesn’t pay to infuriate and manipulate your customer base.
Or maybe it does, because I don’t see these ads dying off as quickly as they seem to want to kill off famous people. In fact, they seem to be proliferating like rodents. Please don’t encourage them, folks. We deserve better.
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