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Your Photos Now Featured in Facebook Ads

Date: 19 Jul 2009
By: Jim Goldstein
Tag: Photography, Social Media
Comment: 25

This past Friday it surfaced that Facebook started including user profile photos in ads run with in the Facebook network. It’s widely known that if a product or service is vouched for by a close friend the liklihood that you’ll investigate and buy the product or use the service increases. The marketing and advertising folks at Facebook know their stuff and they’re taking full advantage of their terms of use to increase click through rates on ads and monetize their community.

What does this mean to you? It means if you don’t dig into the privacy settings and opt out of having your profile photo or perhaps other photos of yours used in ads, you could end up with your photo(s) next to an online dating service ad or perhaps something as awkward as a Viagra ad.

While many wondered why all the fuss about the photo unfriendly Facebook Terms of Use I hope you now understand. Facebook is an advertising engine looking to exploit trust between you and your network to maximize profits. The fact that they force you to opt-out versus opt-in to this type of system shows their true intentions contradicting past statements. As before if you use Facebook be aware and be diligent in checking to see what they’re up to and how they’re using your creative content.

Facebook Dating Ad Hooks Up Married Man … With His Wife – Mashable

Facebook sez, “Don’t mind us, we’re just whoring out your photos” – DownloadSquad

All you have to do to prevent this is sign in to Facebook and click through to (get ready) -> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click “no one.” Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge

Facebook reassures users in wake of service terms change – Breitbart
“”We wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want,” Zuckerberg said”

[tags]Facebook, Terms of Use, photography, social media[/tags]



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  • http://www.unrealshots.com Andrew M

    Thanks Jim,

    this has encouraged me to go and review my Facebook settings…

    Amazing the “features” that get slipped in when you’re not expecting them…

    Cheers,

    Andrew

  • http://www.spoolphotography.com Neal

    Facebook is always up to something trying to exploit its users. Thanks for the heads up JIm. I have reviewied all my settings once again.

  • http://dforty.blogspot.com/ Jim Wheeler

    Thanx – I forwarded your post to all my FB friends too.

  • D Bennett

    I tried going to the “appearance in Facebook ads” page just now, and I got message saying the page was down. If this happens, keep trying. I was able to get in a few minutes later and opt out of the ads.

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  • Mark

    I just tried to go to that settings page, and the Facebook Ads sub page of privacy settings is a blank page. It has normal FB headers and footers, but no content.

  • Jack

    I got the same thing… Facebook is probably changing their settings right now so that they can somehow find a loop-hole in which we can’t opt out of their ad’s.

  • no

    Turn off AdBlock.

  • Jack

    Got it, thanks man.

  • http://www.theroyalstudioandgallery.com Karen

    Interesting, thanks for the heads up!

  • http://facebook.com/nwobama phlux

    “”We wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want,” Zuckerberg said”

    Right. Zuckerberg thinks that everyone on the planet is just waiting to suck his dick.

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  • http://www.photo-chimp.com Eric W

    I’m sorry to say that this is exactly why I haven’t been using Facebook. A little too… I dunno. Sleazy?

    People shouldn’t have to work so hard to keep themselves from being exploited.

  • Laura

    It’s not FB wide, just ads at the top of the page that say “who is smarter” and show a bunch of your friends.

  • http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing Taylor Davidson

    I have an odd feeling this won’t be the last terms of service change that will upset users…

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  • Lisa

    wow, thanks for this, who knew ?!

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  • yvette

    I just tried to opt put and guess what! There was nothing under the facebook ads tab. I can’t opt out! SO i deleted my pics. who know what good that will do.

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  • http://expatcatalyst.wordpress.com/ Jerry

    Go check out what facebook had to say: http://bit.ly/Q3hHh

  • http://www.jmg-galleries.com Jim

    Thanks for the follow up link Jerry!

    Here is the official Facebook response:
    http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=110636457130

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