...is the appropriate place for whoever designed those social networking ads that use the names and head shots of your own friends?
("Is [X] is funny as Ed Asner?" "Which of [E], [F], [G], [H] is more likely to listen to the new single by Burl Ives?")
I've never understood the people who think of text-correlated ads within their e-mail as a privacy violation. (The only thing that "knows" what the text was was the automatic process itself; in theory whoever owns the process could infer things about your e-mail, but in theory you could accomplish the same thing by packet sniffing, and about as tediously.) This practice of using one's own friends' names and likenesses, though... I'm not going to claim it's deceptive (anyone with half a brain will realize that these friends aren't actually endorsing those things) so much as violative.
It also inexplicably reminds me of the voice a kindergarten teacher might use. "Does a COW like to eat grass? Does a DUCK like to eat grass?"
Anyway, there is already one movie (plus a handful of music acts whose names fortunately escape me) that I will make it a point of going a lifetime without seeing.
Posted by Matt Bruce at August 18, 2008 11:55 AM