
Facebook shopping makes sense. You’re on the site everyday anyway. You’re already tapped into the brands you like and they’re sending you coupons. So from there, it’s just a click away from actually making a purchase while still inside the walls.


Facebook shopping makes sense. You’re on the site everyday anyway. You’re already tapped into the brands you like and they’re sending you coupons. So from there, it’s just a click away from actually making a purchase while still inside the walls.
It only makes sense, right? Mobile devices and the usage of them are more geared toward an experience that answers the user’s need of finding something to do, eat or whatever right now. It’s the right now part that makes local more important than ever. As a result the push in the mobile space will have a lot less to do with national campaigns and much more about targeted local efforts. BIA/Kelsey has looked at this trend in their report “US Local Media Annual Forecast (2010-2015)”. As you can see,
...is the core reason it makes sense for Facebook to be public: Accountability to its customers. The rest of this debate is simply financial folks arguing amongst themselves. Facebook is the greatest repository of data about people's intentions, relationships, and utterances that ever has been created. Period. And a company that owns that much private data should be accountable to the public. The public should be able to review its practices, its financials, and question its intentions in a manner backed