I'm an avid reader (checking multiple times per day) and thought you guys would appreciate the attached ad I was presented with after I finished taking a friends' "How well do you know me?" quiz.
"Hey Dan!" The ad said. "Hot singles are waiting for you!"
And on the left hand side was a picture of my wife!
Apparently, this particular ad grabbed a picture of one of my friends to display with the ad and unfortunately, just happened to grab my wife's picture.
I promise this is not doctored.
Thought you'd enjoy it.
]]>@kylere: Just another hobby- just for open minded and body aware people and, by legal definition, adults only. Maybe people who don't do Sci-Fi conventions or Civil War re-enactments get into this...
When I had Comcast On-Demand I watched some of the "Secret Lives of Women" shows that pertained to that subject. To me, it seemed that, for a guy, the only thing worse than being shot down by a woman in a bar who then hooks up with the guy on the bar stool next to you, would be being shot down by a nekkid woman at a swingers party who then turns to the married couple next to you and says "Let's Party!"
]]>@johnfrombrooklyn: That even gets better if you live in a small town in TN of less than 10,000 people.
Hmmm, have I seen -her- at the Gas-N-Go????
]]>One day my wife got one of those but it was one of the ones that says like Hot singles are waiting for you in your area and like match.com. It was all girls of course, and it was from our actual location, so she thinks that im like registered to those places. I had to politely explain to her that websites just take information without you knowing and advertise crap. I showed her how cookies work and everything and luckily she calmed down. She was LIVID when i came home from work. hahaha. If i didnt have some computer knowlege i might be divorced.... Thank you interweb.
]]>That's a good one actually! "Hey babe, I wasn't on AdultFriendFinder...that picture's lifted from Facebook!"
]]>/captain obvious
]]>It does advertise for Consumer Reports, but that's because CR is its Benevolent Overlord. CR gets to advertise, and Consumerist gets to borrow the blue lab coats. It's win-win.
]]>Any so called social networking site is nothing but a legal phishing operation and a tool for advertisers and marketers.
I agree with the group here that says if your going put the information out there, knowing that it's going to be used for advertising and marketing purposes, then don't be surprised when it rears up and bites your ass.
]]>If he does click: "CHEATER!!"
No good can come of this.
]]>I am assuming you have subscribed to Consumer Reports, and donated to the tip jar, and click on every ad. Thanks for allowing this blog to continue.
]]>Looks like Facebook is trying hard to be the next MySpace. (Not a good thing ).
]]>I know of vindictive husbands that might have gone postal upon seeing their wives' pictures posted.
]]>Lets say i sign up for that particular person that face book told me was single to find out they didn't really belong to that site....
]]>Everyone seems to be missing the point that Dan thought this was amusing. Not a problem, not something to get irate over as an invasion of his privacy, not something to sue FB about. Just the randomly selected ad for a dating service randomly selected the picture of one of his friends and happened to choose HIS OWN WIFE! What are the odds???
]]>But this wasn't a Facebook ad. It was an ad from the Quiz Dan gave permissions to.
]]>The first thing that came into my mind was the Pina Colada Song
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I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.
But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half-bad.
"Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape."
So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.
It was my own lovely lady, and she said, "Oh, it's you."
And we laughed for a moment, and I said, "I never knew"..
"That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."
"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.
And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.
You're the love that I've looked for, come with me, and escape."
I've always said that married guys with hot wives should be willing to share with the less fortunate.
]]>This does bring up an interesting point. If anyone Dan or his wife knows get that same ad with her picture, it would imply that Dan's wife is a member of this particular dating service and that she is possibly listed as single.
Do Facebook's terms of use allow your pictures to be used in third-party advertisements to other users?
]]>@WhoAsked You: How dare a voluntary, non-vital, ad-supported site "intrude" upon information freely and willingly given to it. This isn't a credit card or a medical records database...it's a freaking social networking that owns and may sell/share your information at will.
Frankly, in this case, the OP stupidly took one of those crazy Facebook app quizzes -- the kind that explicitly tells you that just by taking the thing, you agree that third-parties have free range to all information in and attached to your profile.
You lose for common sense.
]]>Facebook occasionally pairs advertisements with relevant social actions from a user's friends to create Social Ads. Social Ads make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends. These respect all privacy rules. You may opt out of appearing in your friends' Social Ads below.
You can show "only my friends" or "nobody"
I would hope that this also covers the usage of one's private photos for advertisements to their friends as well.
]]>I haven't done any apps because of that. I just message people.
]]>Facebook members get an awesome free service and in return they agree to be marketed to using their data. It's all very simple. Did you think Facebook was giving away their service for free?
]]>A smart advertiser would at least check on that before using the picture for a singles ad. Assuming they have any control over the matter at all.
]]>@takes_so_little: Actually, anyone with her as a friend is a potential recipient. Using the image could constitute defimation of character as her friends surely know that she is married, and being listed as a "hot single" could imply that she is cheating on her husband, which is not socially exceptable in most circles, and in many cases can cause problems, especially if one of Dans friends (who also has his wife as a friend) see the Ad and tells dan hsi wife signed up for a dating service.
]]>FB members sign up to be marketed to (at).
FB members make their private lives available to anyone and everyone, even if "your profile is set to private."
No one intruded into their lives, they made it freely available.
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]]>The CEO should have to listen to Dan and Wife lay into him for half an hour, with all staff on conference call.
How is this really any different than someone getting my boss's face and name and sending me a doctored letter saying "Work Harder" or "You want a raise, get real?" or "You're Fired"?
It is marketing stalking and harassment and I am SICK AND TIRED of marketing aholes in this country NEVER held accountable for intruding into and attacking people's lives just because they want to SELL STUFF.
]]>My thoughts exactly. Awesome program. I often forget that many of the sites I go to ever had ads.
]]>Alas, so it is Facebook that is ruining the sanctity of marriage? Facebook ads have always been quite disturbing to me especially those currently running on my page telling me that "now is a great time to lose weight and get the body that you want" and informing me "how to find a therapist in your area".
]]>*If you give us your cellphone number in order to receive a fake IQ test result, you are proving how much smarter your friends are than you!
]]>(Cue hollering about privacy rights in 3..2..)
]]>"Are your friends smarter than you?"
[stolen photo]: [fake IQ score]
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