An odd sort of ad has been cropping up on my Facebook page, over and over. In the screengrab above, you can see two versions of it at once.
I don’t know why I’m getting that. I haven’t searched for language lessons.
But the really puzzling thing is the photographs with the come-ons. I mean, what do large-breasted women (and if there’s something else those photos have in common, please point it out to me) have to do with language lessons?
And I haven’t been searching for pictures like that, either…
… oh, wait. I tell a lie… I did search for “breasts” on the Tapiture and Pinterest sites for this post earlier, to illustrate a point I made about their content policies. Pinterest admonished me for searching for that, by the way, as follows: “Reminder: Pinterest does not allow nudity. Pinning or repinning photographs displaying breasts, buttocks or genitalia may result in the termination of your Pinterest account.”
So that explains the pictures. What it doesn’t explain is what that has to do with learning a language.
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Oh, and what does being over 45 have to do with it?
Oh, as for the other ads…
The “Sopranos” one makes sense. That’s one of my “likes” on Facebook.
The other is a year off. My high school class was 1971.
Just realized I’ve started my last three comments with “Oh,…” (Here’s the other one.)
Sorry.
Maybe I can borrow “I would say…” from Mark Sanford, and use that just for a change of pace…
I don’t think that all of the FB ads are contextual, I think some of them are just filler. Of course they also track your movements elsewhere on the web, not just your likes and friends on FB. So what exactly have you been looking at?
Suddenly, I’m in the mood for learning a foreign language. Or for dairy products.
Jeff Duncan would say these pictures are udderly ridiculous.