H&H facebook - hmmmmmm?

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MissMincePie&Brandy

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For those who use facebook, what do you think of the H&H status updates where H&H comments on a horse for sale?

I'd never thought about it before. Often I'd click on the link and think nice horse, or whatever, but never make a comment.

Anyway. A new horse has recently arrived as a livery on our yard, and he is a very striking colour. I was sure I recognised him. I thought that it may have been from one of these facebook status updates. So I looked back on the H&H facebook posts, and sure enough his advert was one that was featured, and it accumulated loads of comments from people, ranging from very benign cutesy comments, to quite derogatory comments questioning the adverts wording and pricing and speculation about what was wrong with the horse. I don't think it is right that H&H allows peoples adverts to be publically scrutinised and random people are able to speculate on the horse based on a photo and a dozen words, and I'm sure if his new owner saw some of these comments, she'd be really offended. I don't know what the sellers would have made of some of these comments either!

I think H&H need to be careful about singling out peoples adverts and directly inviting nearly 175,000 people who now follow H&H on fb to publicly comment on them.
 
Hmmmmmmmm

If it was my advert I'd probably be glad of the extra FREE exposure to the 75000 FB'ers.

I don't tend to look and can't remember seeing any nasty ones but I would be upset- maybe it should be added in to the process of placing and ad ie 'please tick if you DO NOT want you add to be considered for FB post'
 
Yes, agree - people's whos adverts are include as facebook posts should be asked for their permission first.

When you don't know the people or horses involved, random comments (good or bad) seem meaningless, but when you know them, it seems to make more uncomfortable reading.
 
Is it much different from someone posting on a forum about it though, (for which there's never a tick option)? Or bad mouthing an advertised horse/advert itself to your mates on the yard, who talk to the feed guy, who talks to the talk shop dealer who talks to their friends who looked at the ad and were going to phone... Not to say that sellers shouldn't have control over where they want their advert shared - they're paying after all. Still, all that extra publicity for free is rarely going to be turned down I would have thought. In fact, you'd think it would cost extra to be on fb!
 
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