Ads (or the lack thereof)

I have been dutifully watching my facebook page for ads which tell me that somebody I don't know knows way more about me than they should. But they haven't shown up yet. I get ads about advertising your business (which I don't care to do because I haven't got one), and then all sorts of boring things my friends like, like verizon wireless. I assume this is because I'm a boring person and hardly do anything on the computer, and I don't click like on everything that I actually do like on fb, so maybe they don't know too much about me. Or they just majorly picked up on the fact that I'm boring. Or they think I'm a computer illiterate lady who didn't post the year of her birth on purpose, and therefore the safest bet is boring stuff. Who knows. There are even a lot of days when there isn't a single ad on my facebook. I'm not complaining though. I prefer to keep it this way.  

An Interesting Letter to the Editor...

I found this Letter to the Editor article while doing some research for my paper today, and thought it was really intriguing. On the heels of what we've been reading in The Facebook Effect about the process of turning Facebook into a lucrative company, I found the writer's comment about the investors and advertisors peering through the windows of our relationships (such a good analogy. It's perfectly creepy) an interesting take on the business aspect of Facebook. While I don't consider this article to be a contradiction to what is supposedly Mark Zuckerburg's vision for Facebook (enhancing relationships), I do find the idea of facebook's advertisers intruding on our relationships to be thought-provoking.

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