On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:48:02 -0400, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Incidentally, people talk about how FB has all this valuable user data
>> and how they're using it to do ultra-targeted advertising. ARE YOU
>> KIDDING ME? Have you *seen* their adverts? What are they aiming with? A
>> blunderbuss?! Because the targeting is just laughably poor. For
>> example, constantly spamming me with ads for dating websites, even
>> after I changed my profile to indicate that I'm no longer single.
>>
>> Sometimes, you do something like change your status to mention
>> Marmite(tm), and an advert for Marmite(tm) appears. Sometimes you say
>> something like "man, I'm really looking forward to the weekend", and
>> get an advert for Hellman's mayonnaise. And sometimes, you say
>> something like "hey Helen, that was some great dancing yesterday" and
>> get adverts for Black & Decker power tools. I mean, seriously, WTF?
>> This is not "targeted advertising", this is "randomly generated spam".
> 
> I don't consider it spam if the advertiser pays for the ad.

So those "cheap meds" messages don't count as spam?  The seller does pay 
someone to send the message, after all...

If so, that's a very unconventional definition for "Spam" (in the 
Internet sense).

Jim

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