Day 64

I always thought that Facebook micro-targeted its ads at specific target individuals.  One time, I bought some replacement drip pans for a Hotpoint stove on Amazon, and Facebook must have thought I was trying to corner the market on drip pads, because each day for the next month or so I had anywhere from three to five ads for drip pads in my feed.

Today, I inexplicably found a political ad for Donald Trump in my Facebook feed.  Have they SEEN any of the other posts in my feed, much less my own postings?  So much for the pin-point precision of Facebook advertising.

Interestingly, the comments were left open, and it was full of over-the-top praise for Trump and fire-and-brimstone warnings about socialism and a Biden presidency.  So, since it was an open forum, I wrote "Donald Trump is a malignant tumor on the undescended testicle of the body politic," fully expecting the remark not to appear in the comments.  

But it did.  Emboldened, I wrote "Remember that time Trump gave Russia hell for putting bounties on the heads of American soldiers?  Yeah, me neither."  That showed up in the comments, too.

Next, I posted "Remember that time Trump pulled back American troops in Syria so that Turkey could bomb our allies, the Kurds?"

"Remember that time Kelly Loeffler made national news by dumping all that stock after being briefed on the covid pandemic, all while telling her constituents here in Georgia that there was nothing to worry about?" 

"Remember that time Brian Kemp 'just found out' covid could be spread by asymptomatic people?  Well, today he just found out that he'll be a one-term governor."

This was too much fun.  All the comments were showing up beneath the ad.  So, finally I added "Remember that time some goofball posted a GOP ad on my Facebook feed and left the comments open?"  That one showed up too, but a few minutes later the entire ad "mysteriously" disappeared from my feed.

Je ne regrette rien.