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Dec 12, 2008 08:26

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?

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necaris December 12 2008, 09:05:33 UTC
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.

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androidkiller December 12 2008, 09:52:26 UTC
Dear Facebook.

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

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weaselspoon December 12 2008, 10:15:17 UTC
I asked a married friend, who lists her facebook status as married, what adverts she gets.

Mortgages.

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pozorvlak December 12 2008, 20:35:08 UTC
Still? That's hilarious, in a darkly depressing kind of way.

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ext_5743 December 12 2008, 11:47:08 UTC
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.

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nonstick December 15 2008, 08:19:48 UTC
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..

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half_of_monty December 12 2008, 13:35:58 UTC
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.

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hildabeast December 12 2008, 15:13:51 UTC
i get those, but i mark them all as offensive.

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necaris December 12 2008, 15:17:39 UTC
Heh. I rarely get weight-loss ones -- mine are mostly for hot singles and 'OEM software'.

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pozorvlak December 12 2008, 20:34:37 UTC
I get an absurd amount of Cialis/Viagra spam, for some reason.

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