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Following Twitter’s lead, Facebook has begun adding sponsored ads to your feed (or “timeline”).

Here is an example:

This has all of the hallmarks of an internet marketing campaign:

– pictures of girls

– regional targeting of facebook users (all of those who “like” this page reside in Orange County)

– blandish, “directory type” website being promoted – a decent site but one driven only by desire for ad revenue (I don’t think people will really connect with this site although there’s lots of good “lifestyle” content – skating, tattoos, etc.).