{"id":839,"date":"2010-01-22T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=839"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:57:06","slug":"facebook-ads-getting-too-spammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2010\/01\/22\/facebook-ads-getting-too-spammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ads, getting too spammy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post started out with the intent to be about online privacy and advertising. \u00a0I was going to talk about the issues raised at last month&#8217;s FTC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/index.cfm?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=118551\" target=\"_blank\">roundtable on online privacy<\/a> including behaviorally targeted advertising. Maybe even float\u00a0around\u00a0in\u00a0cloud\u00a0computing, the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/article\/331582\/us_ftc_examine_cloud_privacy_concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\">next week&#8217;s session at the FTC<\/a>. Talk a little about Facebook&#8217;s privacy woes in the aftermath of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/12\/facebooks-new-privacy-changes-good-bad-and-ugly\" target=\"_blank\">changing its privacy settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I have bronchitis and a terrible sinus headache, so that post is on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I am going to have a very \u00a0little rant about the demographically targeted ads on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Ads like these that pull age related data from my Facebook profile and &#8220;fill in the blank&#8221; in an otherwise generic ad.<a href=\"https:\/\/\/i0.wp.com\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/FB-UGG-boots.png?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-840\" title=\"FB UGG boots\" src=\"https:\/\/\/\/i0.wp.com\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/FB-UGG-boots.png?resize=159%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"214\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/FB-Med-late40s.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-841\" title=\"FB Med late40s\" src=\"https:\/\/\/\/i0.wp.com\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/FB-Med-late40s.png?resize=168%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"243\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t targeted advertising.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s spam. And it&#8217;s lazy.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;Rant off&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post started out with the intent to be about online privacy and advertising. \u00a0I was going to talk about the issues raised at last month&#8217;s FTC roundtable on online privacy including behaviorally targeted advertising. Maybe even float\u00a0around\u00a0in\u00a0cloud\u00a0computing, the topic of next week&#8217;s session at the FTC. Talk a little about Facebook&#8217;s privacy woes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[27,68],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}