Facebook facepalm.

[randomness]

I was describing to digitalemur last week that I'd finally managed to dislodge Facebook's assumption that I was from Cincinnati. Now it thinks I'm from Montreal--certainly more plausible--but it took quite a number of "likes" to do it, where it only took two offhand "likes" (Skyline Chili and Graeter's) to get them pointed in that direction in the first place.

As we were talking I suddenly realized why Facebook decided I was a lesbian. Early on I "liked" My Drunk Kitchen. The LGBT link suggestions started not long after that.

No one would "like" Hannah Hart's comedy cooking show if they weren't themselves lesbian, right?

*facepalm*

Comments

[merlinofchaos]

The less you Like on facebook, the better you are. The stuff it does with graphing is just scary.

Alternatively, start liking random things whether or not you like them just to throw of its algorithms.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

It makes sense. The screen space shown to you has an incremental cost of zero. What is the best value that they can put into it? If you post little that identifies your demographics in ways that advertisers care about, Facebook's fix on you will be poor, and the ads that they think are best value when shown to you will be poorly targeted.

Start posting the trivia of your life in a way that reveals all of your demographics, where you live, what you buy, what restaurants you go to, what music you listen to, what people you know, that is, to consider your life to be identical to your spending habits and to flaunt your life like a demented flasher, then Facebook will start giving you relevant ads.