Loading ...Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key
Advertisers on Facebook are a motley bunch. Some are Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. Others are “not only creepy but off-putting,” says a media consultant.
But the site’s pages are also home to countless ads from smaller companies that can be funny, weird or just plain creepy - those suggesting you are, say, eligible to get a free iPad because you are exactly 26 years old, or entreaties to see what your offspring would look like if you had a child with a celebrity.
Odd Web ads, like the dancing women promoting mortgage brokers, are not new. But on social networks like Facebook, where people go to communicate with one another, advertisers seem to be trying especially hard to intrude on the conversation.
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