Forget cupcakes: What you find on Facebook and Twitter is TARTS Sex trade workers have taken to using Facebook and Twitter as a 21st Century phone box by posting calling cards on the networks that show them clearly touting for business. A Times report found hundreds of public pages being used by prostitutes and escort agencies. In some instances their names, contact details and prices were …
It provides a bit of light relief from the hipster spam and junk philosophy. I wonder if Facebook will find a happy medium between revenue streams and the jizz industry. They gots the dollars, and the investors want 'em.
Or will socmedia's search for profitability drive a kind of triple tier consumer bundle? Social, branded lifestyle, and sheer desperation?
Pie in the sky, mom's apple pie, or creampie?
The desire to image ladies sans clothes has been a driver of technology since day one... man paints on cave wall, man paints naked lady on cave wall. Man invents photography, man photographs naked ladies. Man invents 3-D photography, man makes 3-D photos of naked ladies. Man invents moving pictures, video recorders, DVDs, the internet... and man puts pictures of naked ladies on all of them.
And in all that time, ladies of negotiable short-term affection have also found it convenient to advertise their wares... are we surprised that they're on such sites?
At first I was surprised when I stumbled upon #twitterafterdark and thought that maybe twitter needs to put an "I'm 18" button to view certain profiles. I have now adjusted my view and feel that twitter is the exception due to how it works.
Facebook on the other hand is a different beast, facebook is more about families for a lot of people, and I am sure that my niece doesn't need to see things that are "liked" spring up on her news feed.
Won't somebody....oh whats the point? that's the daily mails job.
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