Facebook's New Social Ads Turn Your Friends Into Marketers | Epicenter from Wired.com
Facebook's advertisers in ur feed, annoying ur friends. (Wired)
Undeterred by the setbacks with its Beacon platform last year, Facebook is rolling out more advertising that uses your friends to sell you stuff.
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