Friend suggestions-How does Facebook know this sh*t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:gmail puts ads across the top of my email account that magically have to do with specific emails i've just written the day before. very creepy. example: i had emailed a friend about a midwife, and voila! the next day there was an ad saying something like, "do you want to become a midwife? midwifery school etc etc - sooooo freaky. i'm just glad i have no secrets and my email is pretty boring LOL

I just learned about this. I feel very exposed and naive, I guess. Although I was getting suspicious when DCUM ads were popping up items I'd just searched online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:gmail puts ads across the top of my email account that magically have to do with specific emails i've just written the day before. very creepy. example: i had emailed a friend about a midwife, and voila! the next day there was an ad saying something like, "do you want to become a midwife? midwifery school etc etc - sooooo freaky. i'm just glad i have no secrets and my email is pretty boring LOL

I just learned about this. I feel very exposed and naive, I guess. Although I was getting suspicious when DCUM ads were popping up items I'd just searched online.

Supposedly google is not storing any of the info they use to target your ads. But I don't trust them either.

[Anonymous]

I get friends of friends only on FB. I don't know lots of the people listed because I have wide circles of friends from all over. It never freaked me out because we always had at least 1 friend in common.

[Anonymous]

I had trouble this year because I would research gifts for my kids on-line and then ads for those items would show up later when they were on. Started deleting my cookies every time.