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Most Facebook Users Don't Know That it Records a List of Their Interests, New Study Finds (theverge.com)
Seventy-four percent of Facebook users are unaware that Facebook records a list of their interests for ad-targeting purposes, according to a new study from the Pew Institute. From a report: Participants in the study were first pointed to Facebook's ad preferences page, which lists out a person's interests. Nearly 60 percent of participants admitted that Facebook's lists of interests were very or somewhat accurate to their actual interests, and 51 percent said they were uncomfortable with Facebook creating the list.
Most people's interests aren't really a secret (except for the ones they might want to hide, and those shouldn't be on FaceBook). People need to stop seeing everything as an opportunity to rant.
Regardless of what things FaceBook may be guilty of, not everything in FB, or in life is out to take advantage of us in some sort of zero-sum game. There are win-win situations being sought as well. I've received ads for books on several occasions that were targeted at me based on other books I had liked. I've found some good ones that way and I'd rather see ads for those than for cookbooks or Harlequin romances.
When I advertised my own books, written for a niche genre, I knew what books had inspired me most, and that people that had enjoyed them were the most likely to enjoy mine. With FB I was able to direct my ads to those people. I got a good response for the money I spent, and got several good reviews (without any negative ones). It seems to me those people were happy they had learned of my books and were pleased with their purchases.
What would be served for anyone in my paying far more just to blindly send a lot more ads to people who wouldn't be the least bit interested? That's not a win for them or for me.
I guess this new movement, won't be happy till we're all soy boys, and let's all forget about the aggressive behaviors that got us to this point in the world we're at to date.
Nope.....I guess its just time to be open about it and have them mandate estrogen injections to all men, and let's just get rid of us as a species for the most part.
But women that are for this, be careful...there's already lots of women out there that can't find a man to marry that they want to stay with, as that they aren't acting like "men" anymore.
As for that ad..they couldn't pay me to use a fucking gillette product again.
Huh. Could have sworn I clicked the link for slashdot.org, not jockstrap.com. Or have we finally stockholmed ourselves into worshipping the chads because we're too beta to be proud nerds without resorting to any of this virtue signaling bulldrek about what manly men we are?