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.

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