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One issue with this may be that for awhile FB let you use create ads that would pull from a user's and their friends' profile pictures. This led to some pretty

by lftl 16y ago

One issue with this may be that for awhile FB let you use create ads that would pull from a user's and their friends' profile pictures. This led to some pretty amusing ads for dating services with people's signifcant other being protrayed as looking for love. Not sure if FB still lets advertisers do this, but it may signifcantly contribute to ad blindess for ads like this.

Sukotto 16y ago
hmm... so if you were a divorce lawyer you could run a "looking for love" ad using a picture of a loved one and a "need a divorce?" ad right underneath it. Evil, but possibly effective.
- jgg 16y ago
  It's so evil that I'm wondering why nobody has done it yet.
- riffer 16y ago
  Mega creepy ads may work for selling certain products and services, but nobody wants to trust a creepy lawyer
benmathes 16y ago
They don't let you use social information in your ad code anymore. There were a couple of facebook ad networks (ads on game pages, not facebook ads) that got hit by that.
- idoh 16y ago
  This is true. Social ads got banned and mobile payment ads got really restricted. A lot of facebook ad networks not only got hit by that but got put out of business by those changes. Also, facebook is always tweaking what you can do on ads, business lines are always rising and falling on that platform.