You, too, can enjoy loads of Facebook ads Mark Zuckerberg promised that advertising would change forever when he rolled out Facebook's new ad platform last November. Since then, the social network’s ads have followed the typical course of making people feel inadequate. There are, of course, the dating-site ads, which I’m told even married people get. Another of my favorites is “35 and overweight?” complete with a pic of an oiled-up bodybuilder. Lately, Facebook has been pushing braces on me. My parents must be pissed that they wasted all that money on Dr. Horner. But sometimes you want to relive some of the best Facebook ads. Never fear, now you can. A new link showed up in the Facebook redesign, offering “more ads.” It takes you to “The Ad Board,” featuring many tempting offers. Mine includes discount sunglasses, a painless way to remove unwanted body hair, an offer to “make mad cash,” and an invitation to play an invigorating game of duck, duck, goose. —Posted by Brian Morrissey

July 23, 2008 in Morrissey | Permalink

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yeah, it infuriates me that the ad I get repeatedly is for diets for women over 40. Shows a woman's mid-section in a bikini, and lets just say its not with washboard abs.

Posted by: robin seidner | Jul 23, 2008 9:24:04 AM

So much for targeted marketing. I never saw any of the peer marketing that everyone said had privacy issues. I would imagine it is not that hard to create an algorithm that recognizes the "married" box checked and doesn't send dating ads there? Or if you are looking for "networking". I'm just saying...

I'm pretty immune to the ads but since Berkowitz's "Hey Jew" blog post, I have been looking for something interesting to report with FB ad server.

best,
@knightsicre

Posted by: Alex Sicre | Jul 23, 2008 10:09:09 AM

it's not just the 35-year olds; I get ones for 25 and overweight. plus, just changed my relationship status this morning - now have ads for a book on why he can't committ. great, facebook, thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: @adajbarber | Jul 23, 2008 11:43:47 AM

Yeah, I get loads of debt-free ads (I have only a mortgage, fixed rate, as debt) and then one that tells me I can buy original art and antiques: bids start from £10,000.

Er, great. First, get me into a minimum of £10,000 debt (that's almost $20K!) and then write it all off with debt-clear.com or whatever they're called.

AdBlock Plus is now on permanently for Facebook.

Posted by: purplesimon | Jul 23, 2008 11:58:29 AM

Brian...Have you been served any ads from Dr. Zizmore (sp?) yet? That's when you know you're in trouble.

On a serious note, they need to figure this issue out -- quickly.

Posted by: Brad Kay | Jul 23, 2008 5:14:20 PM

It might be bad karma to post this on an ad blog, but here's a painless way to hide facebook's advertising, both in the sidebar and contextual:

http://pages.pomona.edu/~nad02005/fb.html

Posted by: Noah | Jul 24, 2008 4:24:26 AM

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