[blowski]

If only you could build a valuable product with nothing more than a list of email addresses.

[hardwaresofton]

Is this sarcasm? Is this not one of the main strategies in lead generation?

Linking email addresses to facebook accounts to groups they're involved in and developing target markets for certain users and selling those lists (ex. gamers) to less-than-reputable and maybe even reputable marketing companies seems like it could be profitable... Maybe I'm naive?

[stingraycharles]

This is absolutely correct, there is a huge market for email lists, and even more so for highly targeted ones.

[Alan01252]

Who said anything about building a product.

  1. Find niche on facebook
  2. Find appropriate nice product with affiliate scheme
  3. Harvest Emails
  4. Send email with product ( low conversion, but who cares? )
  5. Repeat

[a_imho]

You could send emails to FB users directly to their facebook email (don't know whether this exists anymore). In 99% these emails were relayed directly to the users mailbox (probably with the added benefit of coming from the facebook.com domain).

Many reported this, but it was not eligible for bug bounty, it was a feature according to FB, even though it circumvented their pay 1$ to deliver your message to someone you are not friend with.

[undisclos3d]

Emails sent to a user's Facebook email address goes to their messages (FB Messenger) mailbox, but they may receive a notification via their personal email.

[misingnoglic]

I've already seen that in Facebook ads, with people selling niche and probably auto generated products to me (my favorite was a shirt that says "I still miss Darius Milhaud"

[Raphmedia]

From experience, a lot of online stores newsletter have up to 40% click rate if not more.