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> Facebook: "Our users want to interact with brands."

As distasteful as the hacker crowd may find it, this is probably a true statement.

A significant number of people (in the developed world) really do construct a large part of their personal identity by buying branded products from companies in order to signal something about themselves.

There's a section on this on the Wikipedia page for "Brand":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand#Attitude_branding_and_ico...

parent arctangent 15 years ago

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