Thanks to Facebook's new "ask" function, friends can ask "what the dilly?" about relationship statuses, careers, high schools, and much more. Up until recently, Facebook's mission to accumulate personal information for the sake of targeted advertising has operated in a mostly robotic manner. When users load their own personal pages, the social network has directly, politely asked them to add interests and likes in certain categories, and if any personal history portions are left blank, Facebook points those categories out while making automatic, historical guesses about things like jobs and education. Apparently, automated nagging hasn't proven fruitful enough, because this week, Facebook has rolled out a new, crowd-sourced way to get to the heart of its users' lives: peer pressure.
Facebook Adds Naggy “ask” Button To Profile Pages
Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica
Thu, 05/15/2014 - 4:54pm
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