The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Seriously, Facebook, What Is Up With These Obnoxious, Sexist Ads?”.

Dan Lyons says, “Remember when Facebook was going to reinvent media and advertising? Its grandiose promise was that Facebook could deliver targeted ads with pinpoint accuracy, delivering ads that were perfectly aligned with people’s interests. As Mark Zuckerberg famously intoned in 2007, “Once every hundred years, media changes.”

If that’s the case, how come it’s now 2013 and my Facebook homepage is littered with ads that remind me of the cheap one-column ads you used to see in the back pages of “men’s magazines,” back in the day? Why am I getting all these crappy, annoying ads featuring women with enormous breasts urging me to learn a second language or buy solar panels?”.

Seriously, Facebook, What Is Up With These Obnoxious, Sexist Ads?

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