i had been growing accustomed to ads and had been tuning them out until the other day, when a particularly gruesome ad on facebook caught my attention. the header was "watch live liposuction!" eww. then i started noticing that i was getting tons of liposuction ads from some arizona lipo company. i clicked on the thumbs down sign and selected the "offensive" option. but i still got the ads. plus the only other ads i was getting (which i only now started to notice) were dieting ads, and the occasional fashion ad.



i started getting pissed. why am i getting so many of these ads? the only thing i ever buy on the internet is music and books, so if facebook profiles consumer tastes to market to people, why can't they give me ads for those at least? then i looked into how facebook markets, and apparently they look at the "actions" and "preferences" of all of your friends. ugh. does this mean my friends have liposuction interests? i doubt it. i have a feeling that being a woman and having friends who are women earns you diet and lipo and fashion ads.

i tried to give the online marketeers a clue by joining a bunch of outdoor/activist/music lover type groups. i also joined a group for wasabi peas appreciation and bamboo is sustainable. if you're going to try and sell me things, try things i like. i'm still not going to buy them but at least i won't have to look at lipo ads. since then i've gotten a couple of book or social cause ads, but its still mostly fashion.com ads, hair removal, and dieting shit, especially the latest fad which appears to be an acai berry diet endorsed by oprah? color me fed up and disgusted.

since then i've also been noticing the ads on yahoomail more. and wondering if those are targeted too? i use my email address when buying things on the internet.. and now i feel like the internet is just becoming this gross commercial land where there is no adfree space. maybe i need to pay to get an account with no ads.

all this is to say that i think i'm gonna take a break from the myface madness and start livejournaling more again. at least i'm not constantly bombarded with messages about my body and appearance and how unacceptable they are, and how i should improve them.

oh, and "Oprah's NEW Acai Berry Diet!" can blow me.