Facebook Shows Me Boobies

...and on November 21, 2007, Facebook officially jumped the shark. [Citation needed]

Did you mark yourself as Single, Male, and in Technology? I think Facebook's ads are stereotyping that demographic just a bit. I get ads like that, too.

Yes, Facebook is beginning to lose their head with their ads -- bigger ads, too many ads, privacy-threatening ads, now porn ads.

Not that there is enough of that on the net already. On the Washington Dc network on FB i used keep reporting a wall post that was very graphic. Not sure if it was ever taken down but I lost interest. They have to keep it clean.

of course all i get are vitamin ads - does Fb think i look unhealthy?

I sense a disturbance in The Force. I sense...a looming Facebook backlash.

Seriously, it's Bitch on Facebook Week on the Discovery Channel. Is it Project Beacon, or whatever they call it now (as it is for me?) 'Cause last week they were the darlings of the webz. Now, it seems, they've let just enough evil seep through the cracks that we'll snap at anything. I know a good handful of peeps that have ditched their FB profiles for parts unknown. Thing is, we all knew this was coming. We all read about the ad deals.

Not to diss your gripe...it's totally valid. Just seems like these cats can do no right these days.

The mob is fickle.

Oh, and wait 'til Twitter tries the same thing.

It happens so often that when companies reach for the brass ring of the big score (read big money) they often end up falling off the horse.

I have been noticing more and more inappropriate ads every day since the big announcement. This is one reason I am not a big user of MySpace. I consider some of their ads (heck, most of them) NSFW.

Facebook is going to have to be very, very careful or what they thought might save them, could be what kills them.

Douglas

I agree. Totally uncool. At least on MySpace the tactless, tasteless, inappropriate stuff was all from the users. I am stunned and most of all disappointed.

At least your profile fits...you are male.

Somewhere, somehow...someone, be it robot or human, decided I was male...now I get the..."I'm a hot, lonely girl, wanna chat?" ads...

I never honestly even noticed the ads on facebook all that much until recently. They are getting a bit over the top. I generally figure that 'most' stuff on Facebook is SFW (well, not that it matters at the betahouse... but topless women on screen is still unprofessional). Someone in the ads department probably just slipped honestly. They probably have a ton of people sending in ads to post, and this just slipped.

Yikes. I forget how different the web is with adblockplus turned off.

That's really not cool of facebook - they need to get on that, and fast.

I thought everyone knew Facebook was corrupt and amoral, even though there are over 500 people inside it called Jesus Christ..

http://funk.co.uk/2007/11/facebook-fallout.html

I am not stunned. I am not disappointed. I am mad as hell. Let it be remembered that Facebook BANNED and CENSORED photographs of nursing mothers from its pages. Nice.

I must say, I'm in agreement with Laura Fitton, as well as you, Chris. I am so sick and tired of women's breasts being shown everywhere as tantalizing sexual objects, and then Facebook had the nerve to ban photos of mothers using their breasts to feed children, their intended purpose. I had hoped I would not have to go through this many decades of my life without that attitude changing, and yet it seems to have gotten worse on the internet. I am also disgusted when I think of younger generations of women and girls still having to deal with this hypocrisy on a daily basis.

Tonight, I signed the MoveOn.org Facebook privacy petition. There is a Facebook privacy group protesting their privacy practices, which also affects their ad choices. I posted the group page, and I hope more people will sign it. We have a lot of power as Facebook users, because there are so many of us. We can demand fairness and our rights to privacy. Let's do it.

I think there is a huge difference between the following scenarios:

- Facebook have a policy that allows this kind of rubbish. (Either actively, or because they no longer bother checking.)

- Some junior, idiot, employee goofed.

It it's the "policy" one, then as far as I'm concerned, it'll be game over for facebook.

If it's the "made a mistake" one, then I'm afraid that, under the circumstances, that should be grounds for summary dismissal AND a public apology from the Directors of facebook AND a genuine attempt to make sure it never happens again.

Even worse, if it's the "disgruntled employee" variant of the "made a mistake" one, then that employee should be named and shamed.

Mark

Boy do I feel slighted! heh.

That is totally inappropriate and wrong. As Laura reminds us they censored users pictures.

I hope you show this to someone from Facebook.

And this would be the same Facebook that didn't allow photos of babies nursing, correct?

Oh here's a nifty update. They've been running ads with topless models since at least Sept.

See this blog post: http://urltea.com/25xv. Also, here's *The Age* (Aus) on FB's nursing photo bans/memberships revoked http://urltea.com/25xw.

Other than that, I'm actually in a grateful frame of mind for Thanksgiving. But, gee.

Like I said to my professor, it's the inevitable. Private sphere is no longer valid with internet.

I thought they said their ads were targeted? I'm not sure about the quality of their targeting... However you got off lightly, Chris; facebook seems to think I'm gay, live in San Fran and lead a somewhat "alternative" lifestyle in the evenings :-S Go figure.

Folks never confuse effort with results ! What do you expect from a group of kids that became untouchable to the tune of Millions of Dollars ! I have felt that Facebook is an experiment, until mature people like Microsoft Management make it a business ! Right now it may br profitable but it may wind up and Edsel !

Chris, looks like you found a good one there.

I'd send 'em a support inquiry with this page to see what they say. If you get a canned, "we're sorry you're not satisfied" response, I wouldn't be surprised at all. That's what has happened with my last two requests.

I'm very, very quickly starting to hate Facebook.

In serious poor taste. I do not favor Facebook... but even less now.

Please don't tell me that Twitter will start to titter.

David Parmet seems to have similar but different problems.

Hi Chris,

Well I hope you reported it!

We can expect some of this until the hype fades down and the GRQ merchants move on.

BYW nice face, shame about the boob jobs ;-)

(erm. was that inappropriate... LOL)

BTW I find it less harassing than the Facebook advert for the sad eyed monkey to stamp out animal cruelty. That damn monkey gets me every time :-( And it's not even a topless shot...

Peter

I feel left out.

(and I despise FB more every day)

these are the people that disabled my account?

You mark yourself as single, male and interested in technology, you get adult ads.

You mark yourself as single, female and interested in technology and you get ads for weight loss products...

The only ads I get are for dating services and concerts.

It's A Feature Not A Bug.

(But seriously, I'd imagine it's a case of somebody not vetting advertisers' content thoroughly. I wonder how much actual human oversight was involved with the displaying of that ad.)

Are you f*cking kidding me? Obviously *I* won't see this ad, will I? Are we pissed off b/c we expected this of Myspace and not FB? And here Google is not accepting text ads to Sex and the Beach, which is like grandma's bloomers compared to this ad!

If Mark harrison and Erica harrison are both brother and sister whose parents is Kevin and Wendy Harrison..pls contact me at the above email.. Thank you

fuck face book

see this site http://www.uptofly.com

There is something wrong when Facebook allows this add to be shown, which is clearly intended to arouse purient interest and to make money out of it, and yet removes breastfeeding pictures from people's private albums.

WHAT HYPPOCRITS!!!!!!i can not beleive this, especially when they are removing pictures members are putting up of them reastfeeding because it shows some breast, areola or nipple!!!!!

It must be awful to be assaulted on your friendly social networking tool with completely tasteless ads and to be assumed to "have no game" AND to be appreciative of such disrespect, and to perchance send money to those tards. COME ON!!

I've met the ad folks at Facebook, so I'd like to think I can vouch for them but ... I suppose for what it's worth: They're trying. It's not perfect. The whole targeted advertising thing, and this isn't exclusively a Facebook issue, is still so new that the mechanics behind it will screw up (as they did here).

Now whether or not they're doing something to fix it? Who knows. I just thought I'd stick up for them and play Devil's Advocate.

That ad is a bit ridiculous. I'm pretty sure my wife would kill me if she saw that pop up.

LUDILO!!!

LUDILO

A social network like facebook, myspace or twitter SHOULD NOT be allowed to sell advertisement space to anything porn related.

I never even noticed the ads on facebook all that much until recently. They are getting a bit crazier. I generally figure that 'most' stuff on Facebook is SFW, but topless women on screen is still unprofessional). Someone in the ads department probably just slipped hopfully.