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02/12/2012 at 9:44pm
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Why is facebook's advertising so wrong?

Cars for hill billys - that I would not buy,
Dating sites with pictures of women half my age,
Age 18 plus games for computer nerds,
Luxury brand gifts - as if I would!,
'Original' gifts that say you love her, and
River cruises - for the retired type.

I thought they were supposed to target their advertising - I must have entered my details incorrectly as they have definitely got the wrong person!

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02/12/2012 at 10:10pm
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It's pretty random in my view and research has show that facebook advertising doesn't actually really work.
I don't believe that facebook does actually make a profit from these random adverts. There is a lot on google about revenues. Little/nothing about profits.
When it floated it was valued at $66b. I use it but wouldn't invest in it.


04/12/2012 at 6:16am
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Facebook's targeted advertising is not yet "ironed out" mainly because users keep telling each other what setting to change to avoid Facebook's "anti-privacy" policies to allow targeted advertising.

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04/12/2012 at 8:28am
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No adverts at all on my facebook page Just use adblock plus


04/12/2012 at 9:01am
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you can remove the adverts in your settings

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04/12/2012 at 9:11am
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Don't use facebook or twitter, prefer old fashioned methods like phone, e-mail or heaven forbid face to face!

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04/12/2012 at 9:24am
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Ollie...looking at that list of ads, I would have thought they were spot on.


04/12/2012 at 9:52am
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A couple of years I got fed up with adverts on Facebook targeted at my "age" group. Most gave me the impression I was going to get ill, die soon, if not, be a burden to my family and generally leak, that I changed my year of birth. Amazing what difference it makes to the adverts. I seem more able to ignore them now because they don't annoy me.

Belinda



04/12/2012 at 6:08pm
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Never even noticed them17


04/12/2012 at 6:21pm
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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 04/12/2012
Ollie...looking at that list of ads, I would have thought they were spot on.



That's exactly what my son said - with the addition of "They're targeting your mid-life crisis!"

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