Nipples In Facebook Ad?
It took little more than a month for Facebook ads to go from chicks in bikinis and sexually suggestive poses to nipple slips!
Look, I’m all for the occasional and unexpected nipple, so I wouldn’t naturally be complaining. But hasn’t Facebook always taken a stance against any kind of “adult” material being on the site? Sure, this isn’t hardcorn porn we’re talking about here, but the content of some of these ads are slowly getting closer to it while quickly increasing in frequency on the site. This ad was shown to a guy while he took a Simpsons quiz! Throw in the fact that just as many women peruse Facebook as us guys do and you can suddenly understand where this is headed in the near future: Ads with men wearing banana hammocks.
*shudders*
At the end of the day, Facebook needs to make sure they do a better job of filtering out any “questionable” ads from showing up on the site. There’s no real reason why they shouldn’t be and quite frankly, it’s nice having a haven on the Internet where fifteen adult ads aren’t on every page.
[via acekroth]
From the picture and info shown here, it sounds like the issue is a result of the quiz’s application developer using these ads. The Facebook Platform allows third party developers to monetize their applications according to a developer TOS, and nudity in any form is strictly against that TOS.
Unfortunately for many users, they don’t realize this, and so they immediately think “OMG, Facebook showed me a nipple!” instead of “OMG, the Simpsons quiz app creator showed me a nipple!”
Very good point, Matt. Thanks for showing the distinction there, as I myself didn’t initially catch it.
It does look like this was an ad being shown via a third party developer on their application. But at the same time, it’s being shown on Facebook. It may not be Facebook’s fault that the ad is being shown, but they’ve been a bit slow in punishing anybody who has broken the TOS rules to date. Until they start enforcing the rules with a bit more regularity and speed, they’re partially to blame.
I definitely agree in that Facebook has been slow to act on things like this. Just look at how long that “Secret Crush” spam app ran for after tens of thousands of users installed and reported/complained about it.