(February 21, 2014 at 12:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: But I must be a rarity... I'm pretty much not influenced by ads. At most, they let me know that some particular thing exists... which I could get from a small search on a few select sites.
Oh, and adBlock Plus! I only get ads when I'm using the phone!
This. However, Google's analytics have done a good job bringing up boutiques and things I might not have seen otherwise, so I really couldn't be irritated with them.
(February 21, 2014 at 1:01 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Every time I went to Facebook for a while, it would ask me to fill in my high school. I didn't want that information in my profile. But it kept coming back. It only stopped when I provided the information.
It did that to me too about my work. I clicked the little x a couple times - it hasn't shown up since.
(February 21, 2014 at 1:01 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Easily irritated, no. (Nice ad hom, btw.) Facebook irritating? You bet.
It was a verbalized assumption based on experiential ease in getting that factor to go away. Now...FB's home feed issues? THAT is irritating.