A few months back, while on Facebook, I got to wondering how they choose the adverts on your profile page. Look what can I say? I have an inquiring mind so I came to the conclusion that it was to do with your relationship status.
One night after a few glasses of red wine, I decided for a laugh to put my theory to the test. It was a Saturday night, I was stuck at home so indulge me!
My facebook status states that I am single therefore I was get all the dating adverts on my home and profile
page.
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I changed it to married which instantly caused people to comment. Within minutes of my status change, I was getting adverts for furniture stores, financial companies and freebies for washing powder. This had me in hysterics so I started commenting about it and this set off some of my friends who also changed their relationship status or just told me what was on theirs.
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One friend, who is married, had adverts for 'falling pregnant naturally' which was hilarious cos she already has 5 children!!! Another friend, also married had adverts for incontinence and hormone replacement therapy. I nearly fell off my seat laughing at that one!
Every time I refreshed the page, something new would appear and make me laugh. The upshot was that when I was 'married' I obviously needed debt advice, new furniture and household freebies but when I was 'single' I needed to join as many dating sites as they could throw at me, take up hobbies or join wine clubs!
Just to mix things up a bit, I then changed it to 'in a relationship' which then caused adverts to pop up for shoes, underwear and mortgages. WTF? Then I changed it back to 'married' and finally got adverts for falling pregnant and incontinence pads! Ha ha ha priceless.
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Maybe it was the wine but really, this entertained me the whole night. I know, I hear you, it really doesn't take much does it but you know what they say, little pleases little minds!
In my pickled state, I forgot to change my status back therefore left it as 'married' for a few days, causing total confusion and questions by the bucket load.
Ooops! I will admit though that I was happy to go back to seeing adverts for dating sites cos all the other ones were just reminding me of how old I was and lets face it, who really wants that?
