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How Facebook Exploits Underage Girls In Its Quest For Ad Revenue
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg
How Facebook Exploits Underage Girls in its Quest for Ad Revenue
Sophie Bean, 14, of Sequim, Wash., said she was thought she was “liking” a Facebook ad related to fashion modeling. Instead, it promoted a Facebook page that recruited adult webcam models.
“I just thought it was for modeling, and I’m interested in that, and I thought it would help me out,” Sophie said.
Sophie wasn’t the only teen connecting with the page, which Facebook statistics show is most popular with users 13 to 17. Clicking on it didn’t pull the teens into nude webcam modeling, but did mean they would receive the page’s updates and could be mentioned in future versions of the ad.
- From the Wall Street Journal’s recent article: Nude Webcams and Diet Drugs: the Facebook Ads Teens Aren’t Supposed to See
This post is my third in recent weeks exploring what exactly is going on with the Facebook business model. The company reported stellar results in its latest earnings report, which has led to many questions as to exactly how they are making all this advertising money. Well the pieces are finally starting to come together, and the answer is not pretty.
For some context, I suggest you first read the previous articles I posted:
How Much of Facebook’s Ad Revenue is From Click Fraud?
This Man’s $600,000 Facebook Disaster is a Warning For All Small Businesses
With all that in mind, let’s move on to the third piece of the puzzle. The routine exploitation of the weakness and most gullible members of society, teenage girls.
The crazy thing here is not that some random selection of underage girls are being led to click on ads that direct them to adult video cam sites and dangerous dietary supplements, but that they represent the primary demographic clicking on these ads.
This story from the Wall Street Journal is sure to make your blood boil no matter who you are, but particularly if you are a parent with young children.
From the WSJ:
“Who do you like?” asked recent ads on Facebook, featuring young women in alluring poses.
Some of the ads were configured to reach young teens, who were invited to join an app called Ilikeq that let others rate their attractiveness, comment on their photos and say if they would like to date them.
That’s how 14-year-old Erica Lowder’s picture ended up on display to adult men online. Users of Ilikeq, one of Facebook’s fastest-growing “lifestyle” apps, were able to click through to the Indianapolis girl’s Facebook page.
The case offers a glimpse into how young Facebook users are sometimes exposed to ads inappropriate for them. A 14-year-old girl in Washington state said she “liked” an ad that led to the Facebook page of a nude webcam-modeling site.
Facebook said it approved the ads for young teens because it hadn’t categorized Ilikeq as a dating site. It said it has now done so and has disabled Ilikeq ads for those below its minimum age for dating-site ads, 18.
Advertisers on Facebook can set their ads to reach all users or narrow the focus. Facebook’s website says it can help advertisers target consumers based on an array of user information it collects, such as age, gender, relationship status, politics and type of phone owned.
“We take the quality of ads on Facebook very seriously,” Facebook said in a statement.
Really? You could’ve fooled me.
Facebook used to limit ads to users 18 and older by default. An advertiser who wanted to reach younger people had to change the setting.
In 2011, it eliminated this restriction for some advertisers, so their ads could be shown to all unless specified. That change was extended to all advertisers in 2012, around the time of Facebook’s initial public offering.
Just a coincidence I’m sure…
The change meant roughly 10 million U.S. Facebook users aged from 13 to 17 were exposed to a wider range of marketing. Facebook said it made the change because most advertisers wanted to reach users of all ages, and most ads are appropriate for all.
Sophie Bean, 14, of Sequim, Wash., said she was thought she was “liking” a Facebook ad related to fashion modeling. Instead, it promoted a Facebook page that recruited adult webcam models.
“I just thought it was for modeling, and I’m interested in that, and I thought it would help me out,” Sophie said.
Sophie wasn’t the only teen connecting with the page, which Facebook statistics show is most popular with users 13 to 17. Clicking on it didn’t pull the teens into nude webcam modeling, but did mean they would receive the page’s updates and could be mentioned in future versions of the ad.
Sophie’s father, Robert Bean, said he found the matter “pretty disgusting.” He said that if Facebook is aware of such ads, “they need to be exposed for dealing with companies like this.”
Ads for diet products containing a substance called HCG have run on Facebook. HCG, a hormone produced during pregnancy, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a prescription drug for infertility. But the agency, in a 2011 news release headed “HCG Diet Products Are Illegal,” said HCG doesn’t help with weight loss and isn’t approved for over-the-counter sale for any purpose.
A Florida outfit that has run Facebook ads in the past uses an “HCG Diet Kits” Facebook page as an online storefront to sell HCG serum and syringes. The page is most popular with Facebook users aged 13 to 24, according to Facebook’s statistics. On Feb. 20, the page posted “Back in stock!” and listed prices for its diet-shots kits to its Facebook following.
Sickening.
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Kids aren't taught to have a moral compass anymore. It was bad enough, the conditioning, the media and peer pressure to be a talented slut - and be proud of it. - when I was a 20-something, and there was no internet or facebook; now it's just blatant. Listen to song lyrics, then and now, and it's all about debasing yourself to get a man or woman. This rolls around in my mind a lot lately. The message is no one is supposed to have any self-esteem, and, I surmise, will be putty in the hands of anyone who tells them what to do. Baaaaaa!
"SOME" kids aren't taught to have a moral compass.
Many are being taught. Mine included. They know and understand - fine gentlemen, they are. Same with many of their friends - good kids.
I do agree it is a shame that kid are exposed to a truckload of crap on a daily basis.
a moral compass is built-in, never taught.
This is the very nature of how we determine who is sick & who is evil.
Those who are psychopaths are from the beginning, and forever, unable to distinguish right from wrong.
Those who choose wrong are evil & clearly are able to determine right from wrong but a choice is a choice.
The only thing social connections & family can teach is how to show & pay attention to the fine details of communicationg your understanding of right & wrong, and doing something about it effectively to help people or avoid harm and to figure out quickly who's sick or evil.
You can't teach a person to hate/like to kill: that's BUILT IN. You're born one way & stuck to it, same as men who rape can't ever stop liking rape & men who DON'T rape can't ever START liking it.
Even our old friend Death has an opinion about Facebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXWXjUIMLQc
that was a wake up call fer sure. Substitute any word in there and it still speaks volumes
Child porn and child exploitation is swept under the rug when you're a multinational corporation or an "owned" politican.
When you're a small company or an average Joe, it's just an excuse to seize your assets and prosecute you.
Ask yourself why Zuckerburg was gifted Facebook. Maybe this is the reason.
Israel Hebrew website says that the total annual profits garnered from white slavery in Israel have reached the US $1 Billion Dollar mark. (2005)
10,000 Eastern European and Russian girls are lured to Israel each year and enslaved as prostitutes.
Over the past decade, about 100,000 women have been trafficked into Israel in what Keidar calls “modern slavery”.
Leviticus 25:44-46 (New American Standard Bible)
44 – As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.
46 – You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your [b]countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.
Slavery is Legal to the Jewish People. A right granted to them by GOD!
And they take their Religion very seriously!
IF you Google: WORLD WHITE SLAVE TRADE CENTERED IN ISRAEL = About 13,600,000 results
IF you Google: Jews and the white slave trade = About 7,030,000 results
IF you Google: Jews and the black slave trade = About 9,100,000 results
These people are Professional Slavers, and they have been doing it a long time. And it doesn’t matter if you are black or white
//@jameson18
A fellow ZH'er pased this link on to me about the history of slavery. Watch it. It won't confirm your delusions. But watch it anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31E1gHowYcA
I googled, Chrome, your caps above and got 8, 510,000 responses
I google "Dick" and got 296,000,000
Which by your logic proves their are more "Dicks" out there than Jewish slave traders.
I googled Hate Groups and got 155, 000, 000
For the hell of it typed in "Jameson18" and got 46,700. I'm not quite willing to bet the farm they are all about YOU!
Or the 6 dicks that upped you!
Whats wng Akak? Is what Jamison18 saying hitting a bit close to home there? If you're a slave trading zionist piece of shit just roll over and die
What's wrong, usednabused, did "Akak" show you swastika-humpers up for being goose-stepping Hitler-rimming wackjobs? When civilization goes to smash, you'll have your copy of that Protocols crap you empty-headed anti-Semites are always citing rammed so far up your rectum that you'll never feel the pole on which you're to be impaled as an example to other goose-steppers going up after it.
"Whats wng Akak? Is what Jamison18 saying hitting a bit close to home there? If you're a slave trading zionist piece of shit just roll over and die"
Redheaded former drunk of Irish ancestry. Protestant on one side Catholic on the other. And yes, that is a bitch!
I didn't respond to you initially "Usednabused" cause I figured, well why? Also maybe you are, or have been, used and abused and the only way you feel any type of power is to cower anonymously behind a computer and spew hatred towards those you may be afraid to confront in the "real world". But then also noticing the characteristics of a serial killer, one of Hitlers "tribe", wanna be, I did not want to be the one to push you over the edge.
See I truly do believe we are all responsible for the sorry state of country/world. Which means I also believe that somebody is responsible for the current state of agony you must inhabit. But irregardless of whatever concerns I may have for your mental health, I feel obligated to stand for everyones rights. Including yours to spew venom on every post irregardless of topic. After all, those are the principles this country was founded upon.
So if you and your "upvoters" show your selves to be "dicks" dick, do not be surprised when one comes along and says, "hey, did you know you are a dick?"
Riprake does make a good point though. How is it that a website about economic issues attracts so many facists?
The anti-Semites on here who post "anti-Zionist" crap (i.e. Nazi rants; "anti-Zionism" is a distinction lacking any difference from anti-Semitism) are mostly either NSA trolls, NSA's sockpuppets, or the genuine Nazis those posts are intended to attract; there's nothing so effective for discrediting a website as attracting a few genuine Nazis to spooge their murderous racism and retarded conspiracy theories all over it. The way things are going now, ZeroHedge could run an article consisting of nothing but LOLcat pictures, and it would still have some guy with his mouth sewn to Hitler's anus and the NSA's penis permanently sheathed in his bowels going on about ZIONZOGJ00SPROTOCOLSOFTHEELDERSWTF!!! in the comments section.
Zionism is 100% anti-Judaism. To be anti-zionist is to be PRO-Judaism and PROTECTING semites. http://youtu.be/bCw-oWp1wf8
Not to be outdone by Facebook...Here's Planned Parenthood's offering:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/planned-parenthood-produces-video-promoting-bondage-and
oh shit. that crazy stuckup bitch Laci Green? I hate her. I avoid her youtube videos but when I come across them I downvote them. She's a #1 example of women who don't respect men but who want to be put on a special moral & social pedestal. Could be legal, many are, but I didn't listen to her videos enough to find out her opinion on enslaving men using the law too.
I was sick enough of what I heard. She's cute, give her that, but she talks too much & what comes out is offensive to common-sense. I'm no left-wing or right-wing person as I realize that is entirely a puppet-show for children & imbeciles but if she was the last whore on Earth I still would toss her to the curb, she bothers me that much.
I'm totally 100% for BDSM for those who are adult & consenting.
This has NO BUSINESS in planned parenthood, any more than jailing people without charges potentially forever has any business being in a military bill OR a law called "The Patriot Act".
If you want to do it that bad you'll find it on your own. BDSM is not standard "teach your kids about sex" material. Toys, multiple partners, swinging, pickup artists stuff/PUA is all out there & for those who want it, go for it, but it shouldn't be considered normal to teach children it's common, and again, this isn't anything to do with planning parenthood so how the fuck they got that in this category, probably paid for by taxes, is beyond me.
People are fucked.
Wait slow down, some 90% of the INTERNET is about PORN, and the BRITISH&USA CIA/MI6 admitted this week, that their main interest is collect 'shower' porn of pre-pubscent girls, and then now ZH makes the 'news' about FB being about getting pre-nubials to share all with old pederasts,... like is any of this news?
How many 'friends' of these 14 year old girls are Obama's bath house friends, ... what worse is how many of these 14 year old girls are guys like Obama wacking off on the internet while they're talking to ZH lonely guys in mom's basement?
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
Without Facebook you couldn't have Failbook.
Failbook gives you the unique ability to marinate yourself in the foibles, shortcomings, extreme vainity and stupidity of your fellow human beings while also being a showcase for (sometimes) clever and unrestrained snark.
That a few random adolescents are drawn into sex slavery as a result, is a small price to pay for quality entertainment.
The weekend is here on ZH. Accurate as clockwork
Obviously, this will all change once a republican is again President.
Indeed; everything in the world that goes wrong will immediately be blamed on the President, the media will immediately announce we're in another Great Depression, shanty-towns and homelessness will immediately receive unlimited exposure on TV, as will any politically scandals that can be tied even tenously to the President.
All the character assassination the current White House occupant should have received from the media, they will in fact perpetrate on the next guy, whether he deserves it or not. They will also blame him for all of his predecessor's mistakes. That's what difference having a Republican in the White House makes.
FB gets you head lice
http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/25/group-selfies-could-lead-to-spread-of-head...
Lesson to parents and 14 year-olds: "Modelling" is the closest thing there is to prostitution there is without doing the deed itself. There was nothing innocent about clicking on a "modelling" link. No one should be surprised when they show interest in "modelling" that pornographers are waiting just around the corner.
Am I the only one to notice that the young girl referred to also lives in a place called "see quim"?
I thought someone would have picked that up by now...
I used to have a FB account just to track down old friends. When I read about them cooperating with NSA etc I deleted it (deactivated, you can never really leave). I have young boys at home. I don't want them on FaceBook. I went into my wireless router and blacklisted FaceBook's site. Google it, easy to do. We monitor them at home to see what they are in to and they do not have cell phones or other internet accessible devices. Responsible parenting, it ain't easy but it is what's for dinner around my household.
Somehow I've managed to live a rewarding life with a great family and a successful career for over 40 years without Facebook, Twitter, MySpace et.al.
Spend less time on these non value add distractions and more time on family, learning and relationships.
It's really not a mystery
If you spend time not spent on Facebook, eating diseased Hot Pockets, you are still coming out ahead.
I never signed onto Facebook, since it sounded like it was designed for cretins.
Not that there is anything wrong with cretins, of course.