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Rufus, Jay
Real Facebook shop in virtual world breathes life into Mars
Marketing Week
February 21, 2008
Accessed 3/24/08
Britain
 
Relevance:  Perfect example of facebook being used to sell products.
 
 
Evidence:  The article presents information about the subject truthfully with the intention of announcing how candy company, Mars is taking advantage of facebook market to sell candy bars.  It sites all […]

Title:  Advertising on Facebook, Future of Marketing. Pete Todaro, ENGL 202
Abstract:  My paper will look at how social networking sites are making lots of cash with interesting new ways to advertise.  How does information in a users profile allow facebook to send targeted advertising to them on their site?  How do third party developers get […]

 
Real shop in facebook world breathes life into Mars 
-Since 80% of people who use facebook have sent virtual gifts, a new gifting application (Mars Celebrate) allows users to send mars candy bars to friends.  They simply pay for the gifts via PayPal account.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/technology/24cnd-facebook.html 
-Microsoft pays 240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in the company.  Microsoft competing […]

I think it would be interesting to look at how new technology has affected the presidential race so far.  Is technology encouraging young people to finally start voting?  Have some candidates been left behind due to their old school ideas?

1. My topic is focusing on what Facebook is doing with your personal information posted in a profile. 
2. I am interested in security regarding underage citations being issued from drinking pictures.  Another big subject is what third party advertisers are doing with my profile, advertising through me on other people’s news feeds.  This is interesting […]

Students
Students make up the majority of people using facebook as a social utility to network friends.  They would be interested in this topic because so many of them post very personal information about themselves along with pictures of themselves doing some legally loose things.  They should be educated about who is monitoring their account, be […]

I think your question of how technology affects politics is a great idea.  There was such a big deal with the youtube debates when Mitt Romney didnt wants to participate in them. 

Out of the topics touched on in this chapter, I enjoyed his critisism of people who leave comments when they shouldn’t.  I have noticed in this read-write web that we daily face the hazard of irreverent comments left by uneducated people.  It really bothers me when a comment is only meant to insult someone.  It’s […]