The "creepiness factor" of targeted advertising. I am completely cool with advertising, as well as Real Life targeted advertising such as direct mail. However

The "creepiness factor" of targeted advertising. I am completely cool with advertising, as well as Real Life targeted advertising such as direct mail. However I am profoundly offended by targeted online advertising. For example a few days ago I was scouting around for a book on purely conceptual mobile website design. I like APress' books on conceptual iOS App design, so I wandered around APress' site, eventually to come up empty-handed. Now, when I log into facebook, absolutely the whole fucking time is an ad for APress books. Look I think APress is a right chap but I don't want him following me home from the WiFi spot late at night! However I realize now that I have a realistic method to make A Compleat Clusterfuque of Facebook's ad tracking: I have so far avoided entering any of my favorite books or movies. I also - from time to time - advise my FB friends to avoid it themselves. Few of them were previously aware such tracking was possible. Here Are A Few Of My Favorite Things: Movies: The President's Analyst 2001: A Space Oddyssey Logan's Run (all those comedy flicks that star Leslie Nielsen) Bound For Glory Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Tora! Tora! Tora! Most but not all the James Bond flicks Very few of the sequels to anything Books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance All Quiet On The Western Front The Hobbit (but not Lord of the Rings) 2001: A Space Oddyssey (quite different from the movie) (most but not all of Kurt Vonnegut's novels) Amateur Telescope Making Foundation Trilogy Stranger In A Strange Land Time Enough For Love I need to catch some ZZZs soon so I'll cut this short. More or less what I'd do is list a bunch of favorites, as being a whole bunch of completely unrelated books and movies, absolutely none of which I'd actually seen nor read, generally having to do with topics that either do not interest me or even offend me. Daniel Steel is quite popular. I read a few pages of one of her novels it was well-written but I could not conceive of actually reading the whole book. While this wouldn't stop FB from showing me ads, it would result in a lot of wasted time and effort showing them to me. What really gets me down, though, is that the vast majority of ads that I see, are offering me attractive women of my own age. I am fifty-one years old. The one small comfort I take form my divorce, is that Bonita did not want to have children. As yet, Facebook has yet to offer me a woman who might bear my child. Figure That One Out: many if not most of my FB friends have kids, they are always posting their photos, singing their praises &c. I always "Like" their posts, commonly reply, sometimes share yet FB has yet to clue in to flogging a way for me to continue the non-quite Eternal swim in the gene pool. :-(