Facebook Now Targeting Status Updates with Ads

As the targeted advertising noose becomes tighter around everyone's neck, today Facebook announced that it was going to target ads based on a person's status update. For instance, if their update referenced golf for example, the reader would be targeted with ads specific to golf.

Is this good or bad? From the advertiser perspective the reason why Facebook ads convert significantly better than any of the media sources I have tested is because of the laser targeting that you can use to generate conversions. The idea of casting a "wide keyword net" which is separately ranked by algorithms that are only being guessed over to determine what works and really only known by Big G is going away.

From the user perspective it is just one more bit of privacy that has been surrendered in order to use the Facebook website. A lot of times when trying to find a business contact I will type in that person's name as well as the state and often times the search result are these "People Finder" websites that will charge me a nominal fee for the information they have gathered about that person. One of the major datasources they use to collect the information is Facebook and other social media websites.

10 Golden Facebook Status Updates

There’s nothing better than logging into Facebook and seeing a funny status update from one of your friends. Over the years, I’ve seen status updates that literally had me laughing out loud. My goal today is to make you laugh with one of the 10 status updates I’ve listed below:

1. Facebook account for sale, Friends included.
2. is wondering what the person who discovered milk was doing with the cow
3. I love to give homemade gifts. Which one of my kids do you want?
4. I woke up on the wrong side of Facebook.
5. is poking himself
6. ❒ Taken ❒ Single ✔ Pimpin
7. Scratch here ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ to reveal today's status.
8. is unemployable due to personal stuff I put on my Facebook page
9. This is FACEBOOK, quit posting your nasty twisted-kissy-faced-Myspace-angled photos. Thank you.
10. I was such an ugly kid. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.

I hope at least one of the 10 status updates made you laugh. If you have a status update you would like to share, please comment below. Please keep the status updates you share tasteful and appropriate. I’m looking forward to seeing how creative you can be…