Friday fun: Social SherpaPranking Roommate With Facebook Ads

This looks like a quite funny and scary idea:
http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/

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  1. Tomi Engdahl says:

    Using Facebook Ads to Prank your Friends
    http://hackaday.com/2014/09/19/using-facebook-ads-to-prank-your-friends/

    Most tech savvy individuals are well aware of the vast amounts of data that social networking companies collect on us. Some take steps to avoid this data collection, others consider it a trade-off for using free tools to stay in touch with friends and family. Sometimes these ads can get a bit… creepy. Have you ever noticed an ad in the sidebar and thought to yourself, “I just searched for that…” It can be rather unsettling.

    [Brian] is no novice to Internet marketing. One day, he realized that he could create a Facebook ad group with only one member. Playing off of his roommate’s natural paranoia, he decided to serve up some of the most eerily targeted Facebook ads ever seen.

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