Nancy - you've deleted them from your public profile, but it's still stored in your account. It has to be due to COPPA. Ads are delivered based on back-end information, not front-end information. Thus, when Company X buys adds from Facebook, they tell them to just deliver said ads to people over 40. Then, when Facebook generates your page, it'll ship you an ad, regardless of what info is public on your page. Facebook makes it a pain in the ass to change your birthday, but if you set up other accounts with different birthdays, you can see the span of ads generated. (Yes, I'm a dork.) danah On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Nancy Baym wrote:
I'd add also that changing your profile does not have instant results. When I started getting ads targeted at the "over 40" crowd, I deleted my birth year from my profile, but I still get those ads and it's been well over a month since I deleted the information.
I am glad to hear others are as offended as I am by the persistent ads for diets every time we women log in.
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