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Re:Why Facebook will win the Internet & why that scares the ... by metamemetics on Saturday April 24, 2010 @05:29AM (#1290642)
>if advertising became more accurately targeted...You'd get in touch with products you were genuinely interested in... there'd be less utterly useless cruft in the ads you receive.

Counter-example: facebook.com. Supposedly that site has a lot of info on their users, yet their "targetted" ads are as useless and cruft filled as ever.

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