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Find out what @Facebook thinks you are politically.
PJ Media ^ | 3/27/18 | Debra Heine

Posted on 03/27/2018 8:09:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

Find out what @Facebook thinks you are politically:

  1. Open your FB account “Settings.”
  2. Select “Ads”
  3. Click “Your Information”
  4. Click "Your Categories.”

They had me down as "very conservative" which is right on the money and downright creepy because I don't post about politics on Facebook.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; deletefacebook; facebook
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To: willyd

Really? Oh wait - I don’t have an “idiot phone” - The only “device” I use for the Internet is my laptop. Gee, more WINNING for me. They can take their “mobile device” technology (that has destroyed enjoyment of the internet) and shove it you-know-where ... *chuckle*


101 posted on 03/28/2018 1:06:53 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The categorization is part of the algorithm that “curates” your “feed” to make you keep coming back to hear mostly what you like, and to remain.

Advertisers don’t have unlimited budgets, so they wisely seek likely targets for their spending.


102 posted on 03/28/2018 1:15:09 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Very conservative


103 posted on 03/28/2018 1:15:34 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Very conservative, imagine that. Just because whenever they try to throw a Hillary ad at me (which they do try to do sometimes) I always mark “spam”. lol


104 posted on 03/28/2018 1:23:17 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: generally
The liberals feel free to spew their politics. Some conservatives share politics, but many self-censor.

Ain't that the truth. Just got "unfriended" by a liberal former co-worker. I 'unfollowed' him because I knew I would not be able to keep my mouth shut about the crap he posted, so we were still 'friends' I just didn't see his posts.

He, however, would not shut up posting crap when I posted anything political. He liked to put "Trump is a disgrase" and I wanted to tell him his spelling was a disgrace but no... I posted something on the 2nd amendment, he told me apparently I didn't have any loved ones who could be killed by guns and assorted other things, point being, I was nice, he was nasty and then he unfriended me. :0 Liberalism, it's a mental disease and I always liked the guy, fellow gardener but man, he can turn nasty if you don't agree with his political views.

105 posted on 03/28/2018 1:30:05 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Oh lord, I’m now wondering....do they have a category in “Behaviors” (that’s offensive in itself!) for WHITE Affinity?

LOL!


106 posted on 03/28/2018 1:35:59 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

have you ever googled anything, like right wing stuff? Because one time I googled “kayak”, next thing I know ads for kayaks were showing up on my facebook page. It creeped me out.


107 posted on 03/28/2018 1:53:21 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

mine

US politics (very conservative) :)


108 posted on 03/28/2018 1:56:20 PM PDT by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Here’s the funny thing: Facebook won’t let pitch your ad to whites like they do the other races/ethnicities.

If you want white people to see your ad, you have to figure out specific behaviors.

And they have reams of those.

I’ll try and get in the ad dashboard tonight or tomorrow. It’s amazing really.


109 posted on 03/28/2018 3:34:44 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Still I look to find a reason to believe...)
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To: TADSLOS

I never fixed my address on the Alexa app, which means she has the default address (Carlsbad, CA).

Don’t I wish, especially during the cold New England winters...

:-)


110 posted on 03/29/2018 11:56:35 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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