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  Don, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 10:03am

  
  

  Rename themselves

  Is it me, or has marketing run amok?

   

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  Niquesy, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 10:09am

  
  

  Brand X

  Next people will be naming thier kids after brands to pay for college.
  Stranger to new mom, "He's so cute, what's his name?"
  Mom to Stranger, "Sketcher John"
  Stranger to mom, "Did you get enough to pay for college?"

   

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  Mel, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 11:16am

  
  

  Re: Brand X

  you should read "Jennifer Government" by Max Barry. Everyone in the book has the last name of the company they work for, including government agents. There is a social stigma if you don't introduce yourself as "Melanie Enron", etc. as it means you are jobless.

   

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  madmikeVisitTechDirt.com, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 10:23am

  
  

  Really?!

  Sounds good to me. How much does it pay?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 10:35am

  
  

  Re: Really?!

  > Sounds good to me. How much does it pay?
  
  Not enough to recover your dignity

   

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  madmikeVisitTechDirt.com, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 11:42am

  
  

  Re: Re: Really?!

  Everyone would whore out their username if they got paid the right amount of money.
  
  I would do it for two dollars.

   

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  Keybored, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 10:38am

  
  

  Advertising has definately run fu*** amuck. Please make it stop.

   

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  WOOHOO!!!!, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 10:56am

  
  

  Money for chatting!!!!

  where do is sign up??? If all i have to do is change my screen name, why not. Its no different then when someone buys a "GAP" t-shirt and is a walking ad. You just get paid for this advertising.

   

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  anyone @ techdirt dot com, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 11:08am

  
  

  HELLO!!!!

  dude, whats in a name?
  
  Whats in an email address?
  
  email addresses have LONG been advertising for sites.

   

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  DV Henkel-Wallace, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 11:29am

  
  

  it's happening already

  and it's easy to imagine the next step, which would be to pay people for actually dropping an ad into the text of the chat.

  This has been happening for the last few years, actually. There are specific agencies that contract with individuals (primarily students or others in their 20s) to talk up specific products.

   

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  eric (visit, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 11:44am

  
  

  i foresee

  you know when you watch football, and they show a yellow line for the first down line, and now they have another thing superimposed that says "3rd and 7". I predict ads there soon. already happens in baseball, there's a greenscreen just to the left of the batter

   

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  Mike C., Oct 25th, 2006 @ 12:01pm

  
  

  Marketing is out of control...

  {sarcasm} I, for one, (visit travelwebsite.com) would never stoop so low ($10 off your next visit to Joe Chiropractor - mention this ad) as to include advertisements (subliminaladvertising.com) in my text-based communications (cellphonecompany.com) with any of my friends (socialnetworkingsite.com)..... {/sarcasm}

   

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  Sanguine Dream, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 12:02pm

  
  

  Oh no...

  I can't blame them for trying something new but with spamming as bad as it is these days I'm not sure this will take off. It must be cheaper for companies to invest more into marketing departments than R&D departments...

   

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  |3331373|3|_||3, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 7:48pm

  
  

  Change the names of your frinds when they appear

  I know people who do this because they cannot keep track of the stupid names that some of the girls I know seem to have nothing better to do than come up with. This way, you set up some chat script with a bunch of friends, scam the companies, and do so a t no cost or real effort on my part. I'm up for it, if the money's good enough.

   

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