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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads (futurism.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well I guess it comes down to probability. How often does the average social media user delete their uploaded pictures because their phone storage is full? Or why would they delete those if they just got a new phone? If they are degoogling, why would they delete content on Facebook? (I know this one is pedantic, sorry). Also, transforming? What

Point being, chances a 14 year old insecure girl will delete pictures of her face off Facebook are like a hundred times more likely because she thinks she looks bad in them than for any of your odd reasons.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It comes down to ROI. Does spending money on advertising beauty products to teens who have deleted selfies lead to more money in sales than spent on advertising? If so, capitalism says you should do it, it's free money.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    And even if it doesn't, you as a marketing department should probably still try to convince upper management that the statistical noise is growth, otherwise less money for you. That's how weird marketing decisions happen, because large companies are extremely compartmentalized and upper management doesn't have time or resources to check how accurate that is, that's marketing's job.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    i seem to have misunderstood. my reading was that they were tracking when selfies were being deleted from the user's device itself (and not off the facebook platform).

    if the article is about selfies being deleted from the user's posts on meta platforms, otoh, i don't understand why there's a privacy brouhaha. surely their tos and privacy policy covers using your data and actions on their platforms for targeted advertising?

    there is a conversation that needs to be had there about the morality of such a move, sure, but i don't see a privacy violation.

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