Followup to my previous post.

[randomness]

Facebook has been closing in on me in the last week. From their suggested pages, it appears that they have decided I'm a Jewish lesbian from Cincinnati transplanted to Lower Manhattan working as a lawyer.

(They suggested OMGWTFBIBLE and a congregation I might like, as well as the ABA Gender Equity Task Force. OMGWTFBIBLE's live shows are in Alphabet City, so perhaps I should add "hipster" to that description. SheSeek--which they suggested earlier--is an app that works in New York and a number of other cities, but not Cincinnati. But I'm still getting lots of Cincinnati suggestions.)

Comments

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Can you put "NSA fodder" keywords at the bottom of your Facebook posts to get the ads of your choice?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the funny thing. I'm not posting at all, and haven't been for over a month, well before I started my experiment with "liking" pages. Targeting appears to result from a combination of pages I've "liked" and the people I've "friended" (and in turn, the pages they "like").