Facebook Ads
I check my Facebook page pretty regularly but never take much notice of the Facebook ads on it. I guess the way they pick ads is by studying the information you provided in your profile. Because I am a female collee student, a majority of the ads are “lose weight fast!”. Many of them have picures of celebrities claiming to know their ’secret diet tip’. There is one picture that particularly irks me; it’s a picture of a girl’s stomach, that looks much like my own, but the caption underneath is a first person narrative about how she was “sooo flabby and went from this to sexy. FInd out what my secret is!” The advertisement implies that I – whose stomach mirrors that in the picture and flabby and not sexy. I know both of those are not true, but I wonder if my subconscious reads these ads, and takes them to heart.
