you trust your friends even if they can
be jerks with so many advertisers trying
to lead you astray but according to our
tip he read the fine print you'll find
that it actually costs two cents more
per hundred grand scam I'm outraged by
all the companies it's no wonder that
your friends opinions carry the most
weight in fact eighty four percent of
people trust recommendations from
friends and family that's more than any
other source and the company that turned
friendship into a commodity is making
millions selling that trust you might
have noticed personalized ads appearing
in your newsfeed once your friends
appear to have endorsed those ads make
up a fair slice of the 2.3 billion
dollars Facebook earned in advertising
in the first three months of this year
alone companies love them because
attaching a friend's name to an ad makes
you significantly more likely to
recognize the brand remember the ad and
even want to purchase their product in
other words Facebook's using you to
advertise to your friends without
telling you when it's happening or
paying you for it
why would they do this cuz you said they
could you know you're always reading
Facebook's entire terms and conditions
I'm gonna come put them down well then
you'd remember this classic clause you
permit a business or other entity to pay
us to display your name and your profile
picture with your content or information
without any compensation to you even
better on the second read poetry that
Clause opens the door to ads based
around the use of this button but this
is Facebook land and like doesn't just
mean like in Facebook and ease it means
yes I've seen you feet at the beach your
fancy food your stupid baby none of us
actually like these pictures it's just a
bloody reflex sometimes we click the
like button because we want to win
competitions win weekly prizes or to get
updates from service providers get
updates from Telstra in your newsfeed
and sometimes we even click like because
we want to know what someone we don't
like is saying
I hate these guys I've gotta like them
so I can heat them harder and it's not
just if you hit the like button if you
follow a company's page say you'll
attend their event or engage with one of
their apps Facebook can use your name in
their advertising
imagine if that's how it worked in the
real world did you like everything yeah
vomit hey it's Christmas ami look a
great taste what's a good man typos the
food yeah we can put him on first boy so
which has my baby here but Facebook
doesn't care why you like something and
Facebook doesn't care when you like
something let's say broke uni student
you clicked like to win a cheeseburger 5
years ago
free burger yes you're like could show
up on a really famous cheese burger shop
add in your friends news feeds today
hey this bug is still good creepy now
what's even creepier this could keep
happening even after you die there have
been a number of reports of dead people
continuing to show up as liking
companies in ads in the newsfeed
Facebook says this can happen if an
account doesn't get memorialized which
you can do by visiting facebook.com
forward slash help forward slash contact
forward slash three zero five five
bugger it just google it and make sure
your next of kin knows whether to
memorialize or delete your Facebook
account when you die
it says he was his Facebook page
memorialized way what's the address now
a lot of people have written in to us
claiming that Facebook is running ads
endorsed by them for companies they've
never liked Facebook's that I liked
American Express instead I liked ing
Facebook says my sister likes Disney
porn she doesn't I hope but every time
we've looked into one of these
complaints it's turned out they had
actually clicked like will you me you
you can see a list of everything you've
ever liked and when you did it it's in
the Facebook activity log here and with
just two clicks you can take a
terrifying trip down memory lane I swear
I never liked that what no way facebook
says this sometimes happens by accident
often with a slip of the thumb on the
Facebook app or any app that's connected
to Facebook that's the excuse I'm going
for and while you might not remember
everything about your past the internet
never forgets we get out of here please
although ads aren't the worst things
your friends can subject you to you only
my lover you gotta get with my friends
make it last forever fresh you know
yes it does and you can end your work as
an unpaid salesperson on Facebook for
now you can do this by visiting
Facebook's adverts page click settings
and then click adverts and change your
adverts and Friends settings from only
my friends to no one here's the current
link go change your settings seriously
do it now we'll wait I'm kind of over it
they can pause this can't they yeah
pause now if you can hear this you
didn't press pause Kirsten what if they
press pause and then press play again
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