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.)

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[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not even mentioning the ads I see. They're heavily clothes and make-up, as they have been since the beginning.

What I'm looking at and quoting here are the pages being suggested to me to "like" across the top of my pages feed. That has been more closely targeted than the ads you're mentioning.

Ever since I found those links I've been using that as a guide to what Facebook thinks about me. It's pretty focused. Right now the majority of the suggestions are for Cincinnati-related pages, as they have been since I "liked" Skyline Chili. I'm also getting a bar review site (legal, not alcoholic), although that one actually seems to be in Massachusetts.

By comparison, the ad links are pretty generic. I've stopped paying a lot of attention to them except that I sometimes click on them out of curiosity. There are a surprising number of inexpensive clothing and shoe retailers whose sites turn out to be somewhere in South China, though they try to hide that with all their website copy in (sometimes broken) English and all their pricing in US dollars.