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# Please Buy This Song: The Problem With Ping
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/please-buy-this-song-the-problem-with-ping/
- Published: 2011-01-03T11:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-01-03T11:20:00.000Z
- Description: "Ping seems nakedly focused on directing us to buy things on iTunes. Every posting links to a purchase opportunity: So-and-so liked this song—want to buy it? This reverses social networks’. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/01/please-buy-this-song-the-problem-with-ping.html]
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- Tags: Social Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:59

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**Ping** seems nakedly focused on directing us to buy things on iTunes. Every posting links to a purchase opportunity: So-and-so liked this song—**want to buy it**? This reverses social networks’ usual practice of attracting users by giving them access to one another and only later introducing annoying commercial intrusions. **Apple must do more**.

" — **Steven Levy**, **[Wired](http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/pr%5Flevy%5Fping/?ref=hypebot.com)**