Comments on: When ad targeting goes too far – MySpace-VT http://www.centernetworks.com/when-ad-targeting-goes-too-far-myspace-vt Web 2 and Social Media News and Reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.centernetworks.com/when-ad-targeting-goes-too-far-myspace-vt/comment-page-#comment-12780 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12780 You are right. Shooting a black guy is not amusing when it might remind you of white people being shot. Lets all wait a week before trivialising the murder of black men. You are right. Shooting a black guy is not amusing when it might remind you of white people being shot. Lets all wait a week before trivialising the murder of black men.

]]> By: centernetworks http://www.centernetworks.com/when-ad-targeting-goes-too-far-myspace-vt/comment-page-#comment-12781 centernetworks Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12781 <p>Nowhere did the original story or my post note any race -- I have not seen the ads so I don't know if it is a black man, white man, white woman, black woman, etc. I believe the purpose of the original article was to point out that an advertisement showing you shooting someone is not appropriate for a profile of someone who was just shot in the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.</p><p>And as I have written loads of times, all of those "win xxx ads" are horrible.</p> Nowhere did the original story or my post note any race — I have not seen the ads so I don't know if it is a black man, white man, white woman, black woman, etc. I believe the purpose of the original article was to point out that an advertisement showing you shooting someone is not appropriate for a profile of someone who was just shot in the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.

And as I have written loads of times, all of those "win xxx ads" are horrible.

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