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[pozorvlak]

Dear Facebook,

You know I'm not single. If you track IP addresses, which I'm sure you do, then you also know that I share a computer with my girlfriend, and thus even if I were inclined to stray, I wouldn't do so from here.

So could you please stop showing me adverts for hot singles I could meet in my area?

Comments

[necaris.livejournal.com]

Y'see, I quite like that Facebook et al pepper me with irrelevant advertising, it reassures me (if falsely) that they don't know all that much about me. Although the adverts do seem to know how old the user is, which is pretty disturbing.

[androidkiller.livejournal.com]

Dear Facebook.

Despite being single, I do not wish to have lots of adverts about meeting hot girls.

[weaselspoon.livejournal.com]

I asked a married friend, who lists her facebook status as married, what adverts she gets.

Mortgages.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Still? That's hilarious, in a darkly depressing kind of way.

[michaelp-j (from livejournal.com)]

I keep being given adverts for hot singles I could meet in Swindon. But this is the penalty you pay for using Facebook at work.

[nonstick.livejournal.com]

Following the implementation of a programme they're calling 'ShSIT', our work internet access now goes via Germany. It's leading to a few odd regionalisation issues..

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

Adblock plus?

Or do you mean the text ones at the side? They're more ignorable. Though actually, It'd never occurred to me before to be righteously indignant about the fact that most of them are for weight-loss techniques; I stupidly assumed everyone got the same. How fucking rude.

[hildabeast.livejournal.com]

i get those, but i mark them all as offensive.

[necaris.livejournal.com]

Heh. I rarely get weight-loss ones -- mine are mostly for hot singles and 'OEM software'.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

I get an absurd amount of Cialis/Viagra spam, for some reason.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

No, I mean the ones at the sides.

I don't think I've had a weight-loss ad through Facebook, but then I've only had my account there for a week or so. I get them everywhere else, though. I did briefly wonder if I were being targeted because I've written about weight loss, but then reckoned that the market for junk diets is so huge they probably show them to everyone.

The diet industry's awful, isn't it?

[nonstick.livejournal.com]

The dating ads are far worse if you tell it you're single..