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jasoncala... jasoncala...
 
M$2 February 12, 2009 08:14 PM

Sexy Facebook ads.

Am I the only one getting a ton of sexy ads on Facebook? Are boobies the only way to get clicks on Facebook?

Please post your favorite sexy ad from Facebook below.
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pats pats
 
 February 13, 2009 12:28 AM
I am not lucky enough to get such ads. I get the same ads with the images of Katie Couric and Seth Meyers!

May be, it has something to do with your profile. See if there will be any different images, if you change "Interested in" and "Looking for"!


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jeeper jeeper
 
February 12, 2009 08:21 PM
I've noticed them lately, too. They're eye-catching for sure, but I haven't felt compelled to click one.
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cheesehead... cheesehead...
 
February 12, 2009 08:22 PM
I've been getting the "I'm Happy I Lost my Job" one.

/Checks again

Now I get the top one as well. Good thing I can give a thumbs down "offensive" to ads.

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pazaq pazaq
 
February 12, 2009 08:22 PM
I've gotten a couple of these also. I never clicked on any of these. But if you click on the one that says make a cartoon out of you,(Supposedly takes a photo and changes into a cartoon.) my firewall said it was spam/adware. Maybe facebook needs to screen better.

Another of my friends said to simply turn off your gender. If you do you stop getting these kinds of ads.

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djscram djscram
 
February 12, 2009 08:30 PM
Turn off my gender? Then my ex-wife would win!

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zaknormand... zaknormand...
 
February 12, 2009 08:25 PM
I have yet to see any boobies on facebook, but I did see a funny one yesterday.

It was a picture of a guy in a military uniform holding a check. The caption below read something like this: "I lost my job, but now I am making over $7,000 per month from government grants...."

How ironic...

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fixer fixer
 
February 12, 2009 08:26 PM
I have ads blocked in Firefox
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http://adblockplus.org/en/


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pazaq pazaq
 
February 12, 2009 08:55 PM
I stopped blocking ads on sites I use a lot. I figure if I don't support them they will go away.

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mattapus mattapus
 
February 12, 2009 08:26 PM
I get the same sort of ads displayed to me too. I can't think of anything listed in my profile that would make anyone think I'm a "post-boobie-posters-all-over-my-room" guy, let alone an algorithm.

My guess is: You're a dude, you get the boobie ads.

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warplayer warplayer
 
February 12, 2009 08:38 PM
Facebook has ads? Adblock Plus and Filterset.G FTW
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http://adblockplus.org/en/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136


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kingblc kingblc
 
February 12, 2009 08:42 PM
Most good ad agencies are using a technique that sort of skims through your cookies and see's what you have been searching for or look at on other web sites. Not saying this is what Facebook is doing, but that may be why you get certain ads and other people don't.
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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
February 12, 2009 09:22 PM
Using sexy woman in advertising is not a new concept, these facebook ads are not the first time i've seen such an innovation online.

Let's look at some historical sexy ads shall we?

Coca Cola - 1930s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3274438317/

Rigid -1950s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3274440131/
Tyrell - 1950s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3275265472/

Coppertone - 1960s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33749589@N07/3275259926/

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albanian albanian
 
February 13, 2009 03:12 AM
I think the bathing suits are a bit more relevant to suntan lotion than machine tools. I remember billboards of naked ladies advertising soap in Italy. They were clean.

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dougdirac dougdirac
 
February 13, 2009 05:13 PM
You guys need a more critical eye. That Tyrell ad is not from the 1950s. It's a parody ad and is a reference to Blade Runner.

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demanda demanda
 
February 12, 2009 10:42 PM
Must be a guy thing, because I've never seen ads like that on Facebook. I just keep seeing the "free purple Macbook" ads. How does Facebook know my favorite color is purple? Craziness.
http://i44.tinypic.com/e6vqu1.jpg

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eger eger
 
February 13, 2009 03:31 PM
Uh...did you ever type your favorite color into facebook anywhere? Like in your interests or anything?

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demanda demanda
 
February 13, 2009 05:20 PM
Nope.

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albanian albanian
 
February 13, 2009 03:14 AM
I'm not getting them. I got the mac ads when I just checked. Maybe it depends upon what you have been clicking on in the past?

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eger eger
 
February 13, 2009 03:29 PM
The Facebook ads I get are about weddings and dieting. The wedding ads started after I changed my status to engaged indicating that Facebook ads are customized to your personal facebook settings. So, if you are getting half naked female ads, I am going to bet you are male and single.


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