Facebook ads are trying to scam me

Re:Facebook ads are trying to scam me by tallanvor on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @05:57PM (#464879)

Facebook has done a horrible job with their ads. --Most of the ones they show me are in Norwegian. I may live in Norway, but I don't speak Norwegian (yet), so the ads will never be relevant to me.

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Re:Facebook ads are trying to scam me by beingfamous on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @06:27PM (#464943)

Facebook ads have always been relevant to me. Just this weekend, I was browsing profiles on Facebook, and the ads were all, "DO YOU NEED A GIRLFRIEND?"

Totally targeted.

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Re:Facebook ads are trying to scam me by joeyo on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @09:48PM (#465184)

That level of targeting is actually kind of creepy, in my opinion.

Try changing your status from in a relationship to single or vice-versa and see what kind of adverts you get. (Never mind what your privacy settings are...)

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Re:Facebook ads are trying to scam me by gaius on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @01:17AM (#465332)

The day after my birthday the text of the ads changed from '32 and still single?' to '33 and still single?' - that's just mocking me :-(

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Re:Facebook ads are trying to scam me by il on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @01:35AM (#465349)

heh those were probably my ads

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Re:Facebook ads are trying to scam me by crk on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @09:17PM (#465157)

Facebook ads annoy me, because no amount of negative ad feedback seems to stop the deluge of diet, wedding, diamond, or diaper ads. The wedding planning ads are particularly annoying, since my relationship status is set to married.

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