<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Facebook and Click Fraud</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html</link>
	<description>Internet Marketing News</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:05:24 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Randy Turner</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-78933</link>
		<dc:creator>Randy Turner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-78933</guid>
		<description>Face book has been running some type of pay per click scam for months, I watched as my daily budget was clicked away in less then 10 minutes, that&#039;s almost impossible and when I contacted them and explained what happened they gave me some bs excuse that made no sense at all especially when I launched the add campaign went out for a smoke and came back refreshed the web page that shows the daily budget and how many clicks have been used showing my daily budget was gone !  

Don&#039;t walk away from  face book RUN  !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Face book has been running some type of pay per click scam for months, I watched as my daily budget was clicked away in less then 10 minutes, that&#8217;s almost impossible and when I contacted them and explained what happened they gave me some bs excuse that made no sense at all especially when I launched the add campaign went out for a smoke and came back refreshed the web page that shows the daily budget and how many clicks have been used showing my daily budget was gone !  </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t walk away from  face book RUN  !</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Facebook Dealing With a Click Fraud and Data Access Lawsuit &#171; Artvisualizer Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-78892</link>
		<dc:creator>Facebook Dealing With a Click Fraud and Data Access Lawsuit &#171; Artvisualizer Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-78892</guid>
		<description>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Facebook Sued for Stifling Competition, Click Fraud &#124; DodaPedia</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-78600</link>
		<dc:creator>Facebook Sued for Stifling Competition, Click Fraud &#124; DodaPedia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-78600</guid>
		<description>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Host Yard IT Services &#187; Facebook Dealing With a Click Fraud and Data Access Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-78416</link>
		<dc:creator>Host Yard IT Services &#187; Facebook Dealing With a Click Fraud and Data Access Lawsuit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-78416</guid>
		<description>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Facebook Sued for Stifling Competition, Click Fraud &#124; Web 2.0 Promotions</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-78353</link>
		<dc:creator>Facebook Sued for Stifling Competition, Click Fraud &#124; Web 2.0 Promotions</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-78353</guid>
		<description>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] there have been rumblings about Facebook click fraud for some time, this is the first suit in the [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: implantingideas</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-77049</link>
		<dc:creator>implantingideas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-77049</guid>
		<description>Social media has become a rage so much so that even the best companies are hopping on the bandwagon but it has been abused as well, what do you think? Where is social media headed?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social media has become a rage so much so that even the best companies are hopping on the bandwagon but it has been abused as well, what do you think? Where is social media headed?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Mark A. Dix</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-77046</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark A. Dix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-77046</guid>
		<description>&quot;The Dark Side of Facebook AKA &quot;Disgracebook,&quot; or “Facebooks Complete Lack of Customer Service”

If anyone thinks Facebook is “listening” to its members or advertisers or anyone wanting to communicate with them they simply DO NOT know what they are talking about! Facebook ruthlessly, relentlessly, and remorselessly walks all over its members with hob nailed boot polices of culling members from membership for unspecified unknown reasons and then accuses the permanently disabled members as “possibly” being guilty of spamming or “possibly” being guilty of harassing other members because of asking to many members to be friends at an unspecified rate. Facebook goes on to permanently disable accounts that have to many friends, belongs to many groups, pokes to many unknown times, sends to many email messages and on and on and on. Mark Zuckerber says that Facebook members seem to take a “personal ownership” of their Facebook accounts. Well golly gee Mark, Facebook is a SOCIAL internet program that people join to meet and make new friends. Making new friends, at least to me, is personal and publishing real photographs and genuine personal information on Facebook seems personal to me. Maybe you should say in your rules and regulations that we want members to be real and genuine but do not join Facebook for personal reasons and do not expect to be treated in a true genuine caring manner because Facebook does not care in the least about what you think or how you feel. When Facebook says you are guilty of breaking polices you will be treated with complete lack of respect in a impersonal sterile manner and banned from Facbook without recourse. 

The unaired dark side of Facebook, or should I call it &quot;Disgracebook&quot; because of the extremely poor disgraceful way Facebook treats its members.  The reason I say the unaired dark side of Facebook is I have yet to see anything announced on the prime time major news outlets about the disgraceful  practices Facebook uses on its members.  The Internet is bursting at its seems with unhappy disabled Facebook members who have posted thousands of complaints everywhere it is possible to post complaints about Facebooks complete lack of customer service and mean spirited disregard  for concerns, questions and feedback from members and former members. 

On Mark Zuckerber&#039;s, the founder of Facebook,  Facebook Fan Page Mark states &quot;I&#039;m trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.&quot;  I am glad Mark says he is &quot;trying etc.&quot;  because, in my opinion, he certainly has NOT accomplished his mission. Facebook is one of the most closed undemocratic uncaring unsocial business operations since the formation of the Gestapo.  Facebook operates carte blanche without regard of a due process of rights for members Facebook deems unworthy to be members of its social network service and therefore, disables their account.  Facebook justifies its policy and actions under the euphemism of “protecting members” from “repeated actions that could be construed as spam,”  and from anything Facebook makes up as a threat to its security. Facebook is an omnipotent uncaring broadly defined automated bureaucratic security service mechanism with unpublished specific rules that are violated without knowing it.  If this is not Gestapo like policy, I guess I do not know what it is because it certainly is un-American to say the least! 

Furthermore, in my opinion Facebook is not a social network service.  When joining Facebook you are, in reality, joining a  money making “computer program” complete with automated responders but is set up to look like a social network service operated by real people. Is it any wonder Facebook members are treated with total disregard for being feeling thinking real people?  I have yet to know of a computer program that is able to feel and or to reason.  When someone calls Facebook you are treated rudely and crassly informed to use their computerized automated services which do not reply when used or quickly transferred to an automated answering service to which there is no reply.

I strongly urge anyone interested to please research what I am informing you of because I assure you the situation I have explained is the truth and nothing but the truth so help me God.  Until the media and or business community and elected officials takes notice of and makes public “Disgracebooks” inhuman treatment of people Mark Zuckerberg and his staff and money making computer program will continue to fill up trenches behind Disgracebooks California headquarters with unworthy disabled members. 

If Disgracebook is treating its foreign members as poorly as it treats its domestic members Disgracebook is not only giving itself a black eye it is giving the United States of America a black eye.  Is there anyone out there who cares enough to tell the world about Facebooks dark side and will hopefully help Facebook to become a user friendly Internet social service it claims to be?

Why a business would choose to advertise on Disgracebook is beyond my ability to understand sound business practices.  I know that I will not purchase any goods or services advertised on Disgragceook and I urge anyone who has been mauled by Disgracebook to boycott anything advertised by this disgraceful company!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Dark Side of Facebook AKA &#8220;Disgracebook,&#8221; or “Facebooks Complete Lack of Customer Service”</p>
<p>If anyone thinks Facebook is “listening” to its members or advertisers or anyone wanting to communicate with them they simply DO NOT know what they are talking about! Facebook ruthlessly, relentlessly, and remorselessly walks all over its members with hob nailed boot polices of culling members from membership for unspecified unknown reasons and then accuses the permanently disabled members as “possibly” being guilty of spamming or “possibly” being guilty of harassing other members because of asking to many members to be friends at an unspecified rate. Facebook goes on to permanently disable accounts that have to many friends, belongs to many groups, pokes to many unknown times, sends to many email messages and on and on and on. Mark Zuckerber says that Facebook members seem to take a “personal ownership” of their Facebook accounts. Well golly gee Mark, Facebook is a SOCIAL internet program that people join to meet and make new friends. Making new friends, at least to me, is personal and publishing real photographs and genuine personal information on Facebook seems personal to me. Maybe you should say in your rules and regulations that we want members to be real and genuine but do not join Facebook for personal reasons and do not expect to be treated in a true genuine caring manner because Facebook does not care in the least about what you think or how you feel. When Facebook says you are guilty of breaking polices you will be treated with complete lack of respect in a impersonal sterile manner and banned from Facbook without recourse. </p>
<p>The unaired dark side of Facebook, or should I call it &#8220;Disgracebook&#8221; because of the extremely poor disgraceful way Facebook treats its members.  The reason I say the unaired dark side of Facebook is I have yet to see anything announced on the prime time major news outlets about the disgraceful  practices Facebook uses on its members.  The Internet is bursting at its seems with unhappy disabled Facebook members who have posted thousands of complaints everywhere it is possible to post complaints about Facebooks complete lack of customer service and mean spirited disregard  for concerns, questions and feedback from members and former members. </p>
<p>On Mark Zuckerber&#8217;s, the founder of Facebook,  Facebook Fan Page Mark states &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.&#8221;  I am glad Mark says he is &#8220;trying etc.&#8221;  because, in my opinion, he certainly has NOT accomplished his mission. Facebook is one of the most closed undemocratic uncaring unsocial business operations since the formation of the Gestapo.  Facebook operates carte blanche without regard of a due process of rights for members Facebook deems unworthy to be members of its social network service and therefore, disables their account.  Facebook justifies its policy and actions under the euphemism of “protecting members” from “repeated actions that could be construed as spam,”  and from anything Facebook makes up as a threat to its security. Facebook is an omnipotent uncaring broadly defined automated bureaucratic security service mechanism with unpublished specific rules that are violated without knowing it.  If this is not Gestapo like policy, I guess I do not know what it is because it certainly is un-American to say the least! </p>
<p>Furthermore, in my opinion Facebook is not a social network service.  When joining Facebook you are, in reality, joining a  money making “computer program” complete with automated responders but is set up to look like a social network service operated by real people. Is it any wonder Facebook members are treated with total disregard for being feeling thinking real people?  I have yet to know of a computer program that is able to feel and or to reason.  When someone calls Facebook you are treated rudely and crassly informed to use their computerized automated services which do not reply when used or quickly transferred to an automated answering service to which there is no reply.</p>
<p>I strongly urge anyone interested to please research what I am informing you of because I assure you the situation I have explained is the truth and nothing but the truth so help me God.  Until the media and or business community and elected officials takes notice of and makes public “Disgracebooks” inhuman treatment of people Mark Zuckerberg and his staff and money making computer program will continue to fill up trenches behind Disgracebooks California headquarters with unworthy disabled members. </p>
<p>If Disgracebook is treating its foreign members as poorly as it treats its domestic members Disgracebook is not only giving itself a black eye it is giving the United States of America a black eye.  Is there anyone out there who cares enough to tell the world about Facebooks dark side and will hopefully help Facebook to become a user friendly Internet social service it claims to be?</p>
<p>Why a business would choose to advertise on Disgracebook is beyond my ability to understand sound business practices.  I know that I will not purchase any goods or services advertised on Disgragceook and I urge anyone who has been mauled by Disgracebook to boycott anything advertised by this disgraceful company!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Facebook Deals With Some Click Fraud Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-76694</link>
		<dc:creator>Facebook Deals With Some Click Fraud Problems</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-76694</guid>
		<description>[...] Comments [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Comments [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Michael Baker</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-76629</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-76629</guid>
		<description>I think the topic has has a lot of press lately and it has been well coveredjust like this article.  However, one things has not been well covered and that is how each of us can protect ourselves from click fraud.  For example with this Facebook case, it was investigated in other words it is important to track our online advertising campaigns (with a 3rd party ad tracker) in order to succeed in online marketing.  I have been able to advertise online through PPC search engines long enough to know the value.  The bottom line is that if one wishes to succeed in PPC advertising they have to track their ads to prevent click fraud.  This article is a huge example of such a case.

Michael Baker &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adtrackerreviews.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Top Click Fraud Detection tools&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the topic has has a lot of press lately and it has been well coveredjust like this article.  However, one things has not been well covered and that is how each of us can protect ourselves from click fraud.  For example with this Facebook case, it was investigated in other words it is important to track our online advertising campaigns (with a 3rd party ad tracker) in order to succeed in online marketing.  I have been able to advertise online through PPC search engines long enough to know the value.  The bottom line is that if one wishes to succeed in PPC advertising they have to track their ads to prevent click fraud.  This article is a huge example of such a case.</p>
<p>Michael Baker <a href="http://www.adtrackerreviews.com" rel="nofollow"> Top Click Fraud Detection tools</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Finkelstein Thompson LLP</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-76536</link>
		<dc:creator>Finkelstein Thompson LLP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-76536</guid>
		<description>Attorney Advertisement

Finkelstein Thompson LLP is a law firm that represents consumers who have been harmed by large corporations’ unfair business practices. We are currently investigating allegations that advertisers are being charged for fraudulent clicks on Facebook.com. If you have been affected and would like to discuss your rights, please contact Rosemary M. Rivas, Esq. at our toll-free number 877-800-1450 or by email at contact@finkelsteinthompson.com. Responding to this advertisement does not, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship between you and Finkelstein Thompson LLP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attorney Advertisement</p>
<p>Finkelstein Thompson LLP is a law firm that represents consumers who have been harmed by large corporations’ unfair business practices. We are currently investigating allegations that advertisers are being charged for fraudulent clicks on Facebook.com. If you have been affected and would like to discuss your rights, please contact Rosemary M. Rivas, Esq. at our toll-free number 877-800-1450 or by email at contact@finkelsteinthompson.com. Responding to this advertisement does not, by itself, create an attorney-client relationship between you and Finkelstein Thompson LLP.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/06/facebook-and-click-fraud.html/comment-page-1#comment-76271</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=11105#comment-76271</guid>
		<description>Fraudulent clicks have always been an issue with pay per click models. Personally I didnt get great results from the facebook PPC model. I do believe that they would credit the accounts that have had suspicious activity though.

&lt;em&gt;Michael&#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&#039;http://www.shoutwebstrategy.com.au/uncategorized/hello-world&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hello world!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fraudulent clicks have always been an issue with pay per click models. Personally I didnt get great results from the facebook PPC model. I do believe that they would credit the accounts that have had suspicious activity though.</p>
<p><em>Michael&#8217;s last blog post..<a href='http://www.shoutwebstrategy.com.au/uncategorized/hello-world' rel="nofollow">Hello world!</a></em></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

