You’ve got to give Facebook and other social networks credit for intelligent advertising.. I mean, you fill out your profile and it custom fits advertising to suit your interests or needs. Well, it tries to. Gmail does it regularly – filtering recent email content to align advertising sidebars on your screen to match with your recent discussions with friends, family and business.
But…
If you enter ’single’ in on your profile in Facebook, they go into matchmaker overdrive. Every advert that pops up each time I log in, asks… Are you eligible? Do you want a husband? Could I be the one? Do you want a rich single man to date? Come click on this convenient link and find the man of your dreams. Are you 40 and still have it?
Still have it? Have what, exactly? My own teeth? A libido? A pulse?
It’s getting a bit tired. To the point I am seriously considering changing my profile details to something a bit more vague, like: ‘if someone turns up that’s rather cool, I could be interested’ rather than being constantly profiled as post-40 and desperate.
Right now, I’m post 40 and laissez-faire. Which roughly translated means… in my own good time. Without the manic man mad adverts.
Time for the edit button.
I’m actually pretty jelous that you’re an independant woman, living on your own, doing your own thing. Lots of women would love to be a single outspoken scottish woman. I highly admire you and I love your blog I learn new words, in almost every post I read. Hahah I need the education.
Hope it doesn’t creep you out that I come here to read your stuff, I haven’t caught up with all the old posts yet but I’d like to do that.
Hi Jennifer – no problem at all with you reading the blog – that’s what it’s there for! I hope you enjoy it – and yeah.. there’s quite a backlog of posts.