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posted (12.10.2008)
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self-aware advertising robots
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gwahahaha. after a long and hard (that's what she said) day of work, i like to unwind to either a) a heaping bowl of lucky charms, or b) the facebook. facebook is the joy and the curse of the world. being the poor little boy i am, i can be sociable without the modern joys of technology. *coughcoughcellphonecough* however this addiction likes to get out of hand.
that story, i save for another day. but today's story comes from an angry epiphany i had whilst writing on someone else's wall. (i find the most efficient way of communicating via facebook wall is the wall-to-wall. that way you can backtrack and look at all the retarded things you've said. but anyways.) there was an advertisement, advertising a band i will not name (no, not for the sake of privacy this time, you see, if i tell you the band name, that will only make them succeed in their mission of, well, capitalist advertising. they can have their band name placed on my blog for a small and one-time fee of $99USD.)
but what made me angry about this band-who-must-not-be-named was the frequency of these ads i was seeing on facebook. this was about the 7th or 8th time i had actually seen this band before on an ad for facebook. and this isn't the only band, either. facebook likes to cycle between 2 or 3 bands. the remainder usually advertise bands i already like and somehow ties it into a flash game of sorts, featuring several bands everybody has heard of that i'm not particularly fond of. (this isn't news to me. my music is my biggest section of my 'likes' on facebook, so seeing them advertise bands like death from above 1979 doesn't really make me pee my pants with overwhelmification.)
so seeing a picture of some band i don't want to listen to and probably wouldn't like just makes me frustrated. and you know what? that little thumbs down icon next to the ad is BROKEN. so now i can't press thumbs down, select other, and type in various four letter expletives. hey give me a break it's anonymous. and, while we're on the subject, the thumbs up is broken as well. (most likely to consulate for the thumbs down button being broken. facebook likes to maintain a sense of balance.) this means i can't thumbs up random (non-music related) advertisements, hit other, and type in pornographic. (one of my favorite pastimes. people gnashing their teeth because they advertise porn on facebook is one of the funniest things of the century. actually, people gnashing their teeth at anything is one of the funniest things EVER.)
i think what i was initially trying to get at was that i'm sick of the music industry and them trying to shove music down my throat. i mean, advertising bands? how low can you get? the best case scenario is you gain 1 fan from this ad, who does nothing but pirates all your music, and maybe sees you in concert once. but once your sophomore album comes out, said fan will realize you really suck at life, let alone music, and they no longer are a fan of yours, figuratively 'burning' their collection of songs by you. (you can't really burn digital music...the closest you can get to that is angrily dragging the files to the recycle bin and releasing the mouse button in a fit of rage) so, in the long run, you fail.
i wish that thumbs down button still worked.
love your uncle thom
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