Facebook aborts Deals service
August 29, 2011 by admin
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CBR Staff Writer
Published 29 August 2011
Will find other ways to serve local businesses, says company
Social networking site Facebook has said that it would be curtains for its Deals program after four months of testing.
The company with over 750 million users worldwide launched its Deals program in April, which offered online bargains to users.
Group-couponing services have become one of the fastest-growing businesses with Groupon leading the way.
Facebook tested the program in five US cities — Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco.
Facebook had said during the launch of the testing phase that users would get to see discount offers from partner services, including ReachLocal, KGB Deals, HomeRun.com, PopSugar City, Gilt City, Tippr, Plum District and Zozi with the new Facebook’s programme.
“We’re building a product that is social from the ground up,” said Emily White, director of local for Facebook.
“All of these deals are things you want to do with friends, so no teeth whitening, but yes to river rafting.”
However, the company now says that it will work on another model for local businesses.
Facebook spokeswoman Annie Ta said, “After testing Deals for four months, we’ve decided to end our Deals product in the coming weeks.”
“We’ve learned a lot from our test and we’ll continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.”
Facebook also said that it remains “committed to building products to help local businesses connect with people, like Ads, Pages, Sponsored Stories, and Check-in Deals.”
Earlier this year Google announced that it is testing its own online coupon program, Google Offers.
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Frequent Facebook Users More Likely to Experiment With Drugs, Alcohol
August 29, 2011 by admin
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Teens who use social networking sites daily are up to five times more likely to smoke tobacco or marijuana or drink alcohol, according to a new study released Wednesday by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
The survey of 12-to-17-year-olds found that teens who visit Facebook or Myspace daily (70 percent of those surveyed) are five times more likely to use tobacco, three times likelier to use alcohol, and twice as likely to use marijuana compared to those who don’t visit the sites on a typical day.
[Learn how to keep your teen safe on Facebook.]
Joseph Califano, chairman of the organization that conducted the study, told The Chicago Tribune that the public nature of s may make teens think drug use is more common than it is. More than half of students surveyed said they had seen photos on social networking sites of their friends drinking alcohol or doing drugs. “I think there’s no question there’s a relation there,” Califano told the Tribune.
Here are some other notable findings from the survey:
• One in five teens reported being cyber bullied. Cyber bullied teens were more than twice as likely to use alcohol, marijuana, or tobacco than teens who weren’t bullied online.
• Teens who have dinner with their family five to seven times a week are much less likely to use drugs than teens who have dinner with their families three times a week or fewer.
• Sixty eight percent of teens who have tried tobacco have also tried marijuana.
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