Facebook Fraud: How Click-Farms Are Ruining Your Ad Buys
I ran across this video today and had to share.
Quick summary: Click farms in developing countries are making ad buys and promotion buys at Facebook entirely worthless. Buying advertisements through Facebook is a good way to waste money on getting your "Like" count up, but that is it. Your posts views and engagement will be next to nothing.
Watch the video entirely as it is rather eye-opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
I know I won't be spending money at Facebook any time soon.
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I hesitated to like this post and you know why. But it is very interesting and induces me to minimize my facebook presence. Cheers.
Kyle has been arguing this for a while. Shady stuff man. Thanks for shedding the light Steve as you always do!
Definitely a video to watch if you're spending money with Facebook, I watched this yesterday and have seen it pop up all over the place since then, it will be interesting to see if this gains traction and affects Facebook or not.
He also created another great Facebook related video last month http://youtu.be/l9ZqXlHl65g
Eye opening. Makes sense that the same 4-5 people continually pop up in my news feed out of the hundreds of friends I have.
Very interesting, it really shows what paid promotion via facebook really gets you. I never liked the idea of advertising a page anyways, but this really puts things into perspective.
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Thank you, very interesting video and very well presented. Thanks again for sharing!