http://allfacebook.disqus.com/enThu, 22 Nov 2007 17:19:32 -0000http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/moveonorg-to-challenge-facebook-beacon/303978#comment-1638621<p>Maybe in addition to the "opt-out" opportunities, there should be a "Gift" button that reminds the buyer that the Beacon will announce the purchase, and gives the buyer the option to "hide" the Beacon from specific users. Sometimes people don't think ahead of their actions. We are in such a hurry and there are so many "clickable options" that we get "click happy" just to get through the activity.</p>Charlie ProfitThu, 22 Nov 2007 17:19:32 -0000http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/moveonorg-to-challenge-facebook-beacon/303978#comment-1638622<p>A little clarification on how Beacon works. Before any action is published to your Facebook account, you are supposed to get a "window" that slides up from the bottom right corner of your active browser window. This is called toast, since it pops up like toast. At that point you can opt not to publish the action. But, the "toast" apparently doesn't always work (popup blocking?) and so your action gets published without you knowing it or having the option to suppress it.</p>Bar_CodeWed, 21 Nov 2007 08:28:10 -0000http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/moveonorg-to-challenge-facebook-beacon/303978#comment-1638620<p>Nick - see if you can find any stats on the percentage of online purchases which are intended as gifts. I imagine it's a pretty high percentage, so that's a huge amount of data which Facebook will, by default (if the retail partner permits), pull straight into the Newsfeed. And we're getting ever closer to Christmas, too!</p>NeilWed, 21 Nov 2007 02:16:55 -0000http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/moveonorg-to-challenge-facebook-beacon/303978#comment-1638619<p>That's a little over the top. Beacon gives you at least one if not two opportunities to decline the message.</p><p>The first time is on the site hosting beacon and the other is on Facebook itself.</p>clscottTue, 20 Nov 2007 22:52:36 -0000http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/moveonorg-to-challenge-facebook-beacon/303978#comment-1638618<p>minor corrections</p><p>sent to your firends - sent to your friends<br>increasingly trasparent - increasingly transparent<br>be alterted - alerted</p><p>;)</p>dakshTue, 20 Nov 2007 21:59:18 -0000http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/moveonorg-to-challenge-facebook-beacon/303978#comment-1638617<p>Thanks god, someone started <a href="http://blog.abuzant.com/interesting-findings/2007/11/17/digg-acquired-by-the-fbi.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://blog.abuzant.com/interesting-findings/2007/11/17/digg-acquired-by-the-fbi.html">the protest i asked for</a> earlier. I though my voice was not heard, WAY TO GO.</p>Ruslan AbuzantTue, 20 Nov 2007 19:12:12 -0000