Facebook Users Advertising on Their Profile Pages is Plain Stupid
Published by Rodney Rumford December 8th, 2007 in Facebook.This is the dumbest thing that I have heard in a long long time. The New York Times is reporting that “Facebook Members Sell Their Own Ads”. Apparently 1500 facebook users have done this, but not a single link to a profile page that can prove it.
They are posting them with the help of a Montreal-based company called Weblo, an advertising network that sells ads onto people’s blogs and social networking profile pages. Seeing advertising on a blog is one thing, but your profile page… come on, that is true lunacy.
“Weblo’s chief executive Rocky Mirza says that people should be able to sell space on their pages on Facebook”. Note to Rick Mirza: Read the facebook terms of service. It is not for you to decide that people should or should not be able to sell advertising on their facebook profile pages. This is Facebook’s (the owner of the service) decision to make; and they stand firmly against it.
As a facebook user I would simply ask myself these questions”
1. It breaks the facebook terms of service and you could have your account deleted. Is it worth getting kicked off?
2. Are you really that popular that you have 10,000 visits to your facebook page?
3. What is the CPM model?
4. What is the click through rate?
5. How will you spend that 10 Cents that you make? A stick of gum or a mint… tough choice. 
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My company has been doing this for over 2 years now. It is a very lucrative and sneaky way to do brand marketing. If a FB user has 200K friends; it is definetly a platform.
Where in the terms of service is profile page advertising not allowed?
To the first response… On facebook you can only have 5000 friends. I guess that shoots a hole in the 200,000 friends idea. Facebook is not Myspace.