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This reminds me of a strange ad I got from Facebook back in the early days( 2009 or so ). I had dated a Korean girl for a brief period of time , and the moment we broke up ( via Facebook) Facebook started spaming me with dating ads. All the dating ads had Asian women in them

I meet this girl in real life, so it's not like they tracked my web activity. I've always felt like they read your messages, the people you interact with , and then build a model of you.




I was "married" to another guy on facebook during my undergrad, one of those joke scenarios. My interest was set to women. However, i kept getting gay dating ads. I always thought that was weird, why would it give me dating ads if i was married?

I've always wondered how it weighed my preference and my apparent relationship status.


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/07/dating-ap...

42% of people on Tinder are already in relationships. I view these as Validation apps as most people don't meet anyone . In that case even if your happily married you might still seek validation for the low low price of 35$ a month.


how did it even know you'd broken up? that sounds more worrying


Sentiment analysis isn't exactly hard.

In fact it could be as simple as knowing her ethnicity and then seeing we used to message each other a lot, and then suddenly stopped sending messages to each other.




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